[lbo-talk] No Evidence ...

Kelley the-squeeze at pulpculture.org
Fri Sep 19 08:34:04 PDT 2003


At 11:13 AM 9/19/03 -0400, Jon Johanning wrote:
>In this case, the people who don't believe the AQ-Saddam connection
>presumably don't have the emotional motivations which cause the believers
>to switch off their reasoning faculties on this subject.

some people just don't believe it because they have an emotional investment in NOT believing anything the US gubmint (or, a Repuke administration) has to say. doesn't necessarily require an absence of emotional motivations at all. nor does it require reasoning per se. i think here of folks i know who are ardent democrats and their disgust for this fiasco is more about wanting shrubya out any way they can get him out. i think of folks who have a history of run ins with the law and/or have become suspicious of the gubmint for other reasons (e.g., Watergate, Contragate, Hummergate, etc.)

could someone refresh my memory as to why belief in a connection between Hussein and AlQ is evidence of a lack of reasoning or rationality or logic?

kelley



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