"How is it we couldn't reach the other 30 percent?" he demanded. "Where did we go wrong?"

"With all the crap we've been saying about Saddam and Iraq, it should be well into the nineties," Rove added.

Rove was reacting to results of a Washington Post poll that found almost 7 out of 10 Americans believing that Saddam Hussein is tied to the 9/11 terrorist attacks, even though there is no evidence that suggests anyone but bin Laden and al Queda are to blame.