[Overpaid Slacker]

Red -- The CIA was "created" as the OSS during the early part of WWII. Read up on Wild Bill Donovan and the OSS and then tell me if you really believe the CIA was "created" in response to aliens. C'mon.

The "valid" proof comes from speaking to Iraqis. Check out any of the Iraqi blogs for what life was like under Hussein. Do you honestly believe that a man who tried to exterminate the Kurds in the north, wiped out the Marsh Arabs in the south, had tens of thousands tortured, raped and murdered and used WMDs on his own people enjoyed a "legitimate" 99% approval rating? Jeez, man.

Though I'd be interested to see what I will loosely call the "methodology" of this poll to which you refer. I have no doubt I'd tear through it faster than I tear through a sleeve of Oreos.

JP