<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1170" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>guess this kind of surrealism is what we get for living inside the largest, most intense, most powerful propaganda machine on the face of the earth.  ignorance is very "in."</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2>R</FONT></DIV> <DIV><FONT face="Lucida Sans Unicode" color=#008000 size=2></FONT> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #008000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: black"><B>From:</B> <A title=dhenwood@panix.com href="mailto:dhenwood@panix.com">Doug Henwood</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A title=lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org href="mailto:lbo-talk@lbo-talk.org">lbo-talk</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, May 28, 2003 3:19 PM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> [lbo-talk] lots of Americans believe WMDs have been found!</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV>[This stuff gets more surreal every day. Via Sam Smith's Progressive Review.]<BR><BR><<A href="http://www.knowledgenetworks.com/ganp">http://www.knowledgenetworks.com/ganp</A>><BR><BR>A PIPA-Knowledge Networks poll finds that 68% continue to approve of the<BR>decision to go to war with Iraq. However, only 50% said that they were<BR>somewhat (29%) or very (21%) certain that "when the US government presented<BR>the evidence to justify going to war with Iraq, it was. . . not being<BR>misleading." Another 5% said they were not very certain. . . Steven Kull,<BR>director of PIPA comments, "Enthusiasm about the success of the war may be<BR>offset by the failure to find evidence of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction<BR>or links to al' Qaeda."<BR><BR>Kull continues, "For some Americans, their desire to support the war may be<BR>leading them to screen out information that weapons of mass destruction have<BR>not been found." While 59% of those polled correctly said the US has not<BR>found Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, 41% said they believed that the US<BR>has found such weapons (34%) or were unsure (7%).  While 69% correctly said<BR>that Iraq had not used chemical or biological weapons in the war, 31% said<BR>they believed Iraq had (22%) or were unsure (9%).  Kull adds, "Given the<BR>intensive news coverage and high levels of public attention to the topic,<BR>this level of misinformation suggests that some Americans may be avoiding<BR>having an experience of cognitive dissonance."<BR>___________________________________<BR><A href="http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk">http://mailman.lbo-talk.org/mailman/listinfo/lbo-talk</A><BR></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>