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The New York Times > Opinion > Op-Ed Columnist: Voting Without the Facts
Bob Herbert of the New York Times argues that ignorance about the war may have played as great a role in the election as religious bigotry. For example, he reports that 70 percent of Bush supporters thought that Saddam Hussein was working closely with Al Qaeda. (The 9/11 Commission found no evidence of this.) Herbert thinks we need four years of teach ins.
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