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And They Think They're Objective?

Posted by N Palmer on Sunday, August 06, 2006 11:31:51 PM
Can you top this?  I almost couldn't believe my eyes when this popped up as current news on the front page of my ISP:

Half of U.S. Still Believes Iraq
 
Had WMD

By CHARLES J. HANLEY
The Associated Press
Sunday, August 6, 2006; 9:22 PM

and I quote..."-- 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.


U.S. military Stryker vehicles convoy down a main highway in a Sunni populated area, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. Several Stryker vehicles were seen Saturday in Baghdad's mostly Sunni neighborhood of Ghazaliyah, where Iraqi police used loudspeakers to encourage residents to go about their business and reopen shops because the additional troops were there to protect them. As part of a campaign to curb sectarian violence in Baghdad, the U.S. Army transferred 3,700 soldiers of the 172nd Stryker Brigade from northern Iraq to the capital to reinforce U.S. and Iraqi security forces. (AP Photo/Asaad Mouhsin)
U.S. military Stryker vehicles convoy down a main highway in a Sunni populated area, Saturday, Aug. 5, 2006, in Baghdad, Iraq. Several Stryker vehicles were seen Saturday in Baghdad's mostly Sunni neighborhood of Ghazaliyah, where Iraqi police used loudspeakers to encourage residents to go about their business and reopen shops because the additional troops were there to protect them. As part of a campaign to curb sectarian violence in Baghdad, the U.S. Army transferred 3,700 soldiers of the 172nd Stryker Brigade from northern Iraq to the capital to reinforce U.S. and Iraqi security forces. (AP Photo/Asaad Mouhsin) (Asaad Mouhsin - AP)

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People tend to become "independent of reality" in these circumstances, says opinion analyst Steven Kull."

I think that Mr. Hanley has been swimming in the fever swamp for too long and it has gone to his head.  He sure hasn't been listening since well before the war started, and he missed those stacks of Iraqi documents we have been decoding, in which THEY say they had WMD and were ready and able to use them.  And he is quick to discount any Iraqi who carries tales of shipments to Syria.  If you wish to read the whole thing, take a bottle of Maalox with you.
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