It loads fine for me. I will try to find some other sources later. The belief that WMDs were found in Iraq and that Saddam had connections to Al-Qaeda was and is widespread in America and strongly correlated with support for the invasion and occupation. These beliefs are false according to all available evidence so it is worth pondering why they persist.

As for the claim that the world was in a consensus about Iraq's supposed WMDs:
http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2008/06/al...

Here is a good place to start. You may not be fond of the publication but the article includes plenty of sources for you to research on your own. In summary: There was no WMD consensus in the world, among traditional US allies, or within the US intelligence establishment.

You are all basing your responses on a journalist's interpretation of a work of scholarship.

Here is the original study: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~bnyhan/nyhan-reifl...

The study does, in fact, include a corresponding 'liberal' topic with similar results. A certain percentage of people who believed Bush had enacted a ban on embryonic stem cell research did not change their minds when presented with a correction.

This research is important and it is depressing to see it bashed because it is perceived as an attack on one's own ideology.