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Poll: Half of Republicans still believe WMDs found in Iraq

By Kendall Breitman01/07/2015 05:38 AM EST

Republicans and Fox News viewers are more likely to hold false beliefs about the president and the war in Iraq, according to a new poll.

In a Public Mind pollfrom Fairleigh Dickinson University released Wednesday, more than half of Republicans — 51 percent — and half of those who watch Fox News — 52 percent — say that they believe it to be “definitely true” or “probably true” that American forces found an active weapons of mass destruction program in Iraq.

Thirty-two percent of Democrats, 46 percent of independents, 41 percent of people who reported to watch CNN and 14 percent of MSNBC viewers answered similarly.

Overall, 42 percent still believe that troops discovered WMDs, a misleading factor in the decision to invade Iraq in 2003. It was later found that Iraq did have individual stockpilesof chemical weapons, but there was no active WMD program in the country.

...https://www.politico.com/story/2015/01/poll-republicans-wmds-iraq-114016