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From the Times: John le Carré - 'The United States of America has gone mad'
The article is very good and very interesting. I was arrested by the following sentence, though: "A recent poll tells us that one in two Americans now believe Saddam was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Centre."
I am flabbergasted. I'd be interested to see a less indirect source for that figure, or information about that poll. As I understand it, there is *no* current evidence that Iraq is linked to Al-Quaida or the Sept. 11 attacks. None of the terrorists involved who have so far been identified are Iraqi. Saddam Hussein's regime is a *secular* disctatorship, and the Sept. 11 terrorists were Islamic fundamentalists. I can't *believe* people think that.
A similarly interesting article from the other side of the pond is in Salon: 'Sleepwalking toward Baghdad'.
The article is very good and very interesting. I was arrested by the following sentence, though: "A recent poll tells us that one in two Americans now believe Saddam was responsible for the attack on the World Trade Centre."
I am flabbergasted. I'd be interested to see a less indirect source for that figure, or information about that poll. As I understand it, there is *no* current evidence that Iraq is linked to Al-Quaida or the Sept. 11 attacks. None of the terrorists involved who have so far been identified are Iraqi. Saddam Hussein's regime is a *secular* disctatorship, and the Sept. 11 terrorists were Islamic fundamentalists. I can't *believe* people think that.
A similarly interesting article from the other side of the pond is in Salon: 'Sleepwalking toward Baghdad'.
