In response to "So, where are the WMD"
On Tues, 8 Mar 2005 (Doug Miller) wrote:
a) Syria.
b) Iran.
c) buried in the desert in Iraq.
d) all of the above.

On Tues, 8 Mar 2005 (Doug Miller) wrote:
Afraid to use them against us because he knew we'd nuke him, but didn't want
to get rid of them altogether because he was saving them up to use on Israel.

On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 12:47:17 GMT, (Doug Miller)
wrote:

You just don't seem able to grasp the simple concept that there were *other*
reasons as well.

Come back when you figure that out.


Living proof...2+2 does = 5

Renata

"...
According to David Brock, the onetime Republican "hit man" whose book,
"The Republican Noise Machine," explains exactly how the system works,
the White House's "explicit goal is to get us to the point where there
are blue [state] facts and red [state] facts."

Judging by my e-mail, it's working. Hardly a day passes that I don't
hear from perfectly decent, intelligent citizens who believe that
there's proof Saddam's WMD were smuggled into Syria or that documents
implicating him in 9/11 have been found. This was Orwell's great fear:
that the very concept of objectivity would disappear from political
discourse. "Collective solipsism," he called it; the ability to
convince people that 2 + 2 = 5.

A few recent examples:

George W. Bush nominates a black woman as secretary of state, and
pundits who have spent their careers decrying "political correctness"
argue as one that Democrats opposing her must be hypocritical bigots.

He nominates for attorney general a guy who rationalized torture, and
that man's ethnicity, too, becomes his only necessary credential. Only
after Alberto Gonzales is confirmed by the Senate do some GOP pundits
rediscover their consciences.

A former male escort infiltrates the White House press corps via the
buddy system, and the very pundits who just months ago warned that
Democrats would enshrine the "homosexual agenda" go silent. Or they
pretend not to understand the difference between a gay reporter and a
gay prostitute. No fatwa issues from radical clerics like Jerry
Falwell or Pat Robertson; James Dobson keeps railing about the
imagined sexual proclivities of a cartoon sponge.

What do such examples tell us? First, that neither the Bush White
House nor most GOP pundits actually give a flying filigree about
"political correctness," " family values, "" moral clarity" or any of
it. What counts is winning. What counts is power.
...."

By Gene Lyons, Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
Copyright (c) 2005 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette, Inc.