“A majority of Americans have held at least one of three mistaken impressions about the U.S.-led war in Iraq, according to a new study released Thursday, and those misperceptions contributed to much of the popular support for the war.

The three common mistaken impressions are that:

• U.S. forces found weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.
  
• There’s clear evidence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein worked closely with the Sept. 11 terrorists.
  
• People in foreign countries generally either backed the U.S.-led war or were evenly split between supporting and opposing it.” —San Jose Mercury News
  

Beliefs were correlated with which news sources were people’s primary connection to world events.