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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
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 Posted - 08/06/2006 : 15:21:07
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Just THIS In....
From THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published: August 6, 2006
Filed at 5:21 p.m. ET
Do you believe in Iraqi ''WMD''? Did Saddam Hussein's government have weapons of mass destruction in 2003?
Half of America apparently still thinks so, a new poll finds, and experts see a raft of reasons why: a drumbeat of voices from talk radio to die-hard bloggers to the Oval Office, a surprise headline here or there, a rallying around a partisan flag, and a growing need for people, in their own minds, to justify the war in Iraq.
People tend to become ''independent of reality'' in these circumstances, says opinion analyst Steven Kull.
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YO: Oooooooo! Yeeesss! And the ring "leader" of this reality- eschewing group would be: SURreal George!
In G. War's Fuzzy Math Book, 2 + 2 = 5.
Happy Atomic Bomb Day, everybody. OY!
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"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
--Bob Dylan
The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
--me
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--J. Paul Getty
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--Oscar Wilde
"We have Art in order not to die of life."
--Albert Camus
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"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
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Edited by - Orwellingly Yurz on 08/06/2006 15:22:18
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
4955 Posts |
Posted - 08/06/2006 : 17:53:47 [Permalink]
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| I've seen this floating around for a little bit, OY. It's hard to imagine how the country can function well while fully 50% believe wrongly about something so fundamental to today's geopolitical situation. On the other hand, it's tragically easy to see how it is that this country is functioning as it is-- it's precisely because fully 50% believe wrongly about something so fundamental to today's geopolitical situation! Kudos to the RNC and its various media outlets for duping so many Americans! |
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Ricky
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Ghost_Skeptic
SFN Regular
Canada
510 Posts |
Posted - 08/06/2006 : 23:56:57 [Permalink]
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Saddam Husseins behaviour prior to the invasion (playing cat and mouse with the weapons inspectors etc.) was so much like that of someone with something to hide that I wonder if he really thought he had weapons of mass destruction - even though subsequent evidence has indicated they did not exist. Perhaps the people working on these projects took the money and told him they were making progress.
Believing the WMDs were there is no greater disconnect from reality than believing the world is 6000 years old. I will bet dollars to doughnuts that there is a large overlap between the two. |
"You can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink. / You can send a kid to college but you can't make him think." - B.B. King
History is made by stupid people - The Arrogant Worms
"The greater the ignorance the greater the dogmatism." - William Osler
"Religion is the natural home of the psychopath" - Pat Condell
"The day will come when the mystical generation of Jesus, by the supreme being as his father in the womb of a virgin, will be classed with the fable of the generation of Minerva in the brain of Jupiter" - Thomas Jefferson |
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