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> [...WDK, you naughty, naughty fellow!]
OK then, since you are so sensitive about my wording, I'll back off on the NASCAR bit (dumb for me to say anyway as I'm a big car nut myself) and I'll substitute "well-informed" for "intelligent," but I still stand by "dumbass...who gets half his news from Rush Limbaugh and the other half off Fox News." If Rush and Fox are your sole sources for national and international news and opinions, then I can not imagine how you could possibly make sensible voting decisions. Limbaugh and Murdoch are consistently dishonest propagandists. (And the sky is blue.) Surely you saw the recent public opinion survey which showed Fox viewers were quite a lot more likely than non-Fox viewers to believe "false facts" such as that the U.S. military actually found stocks of "WMDs" in Iraq after the invasion, and that Saddam's government was responsible for nine-eleven.
Meanwhile, you haven't at all addressed my main point, which is that Saddam was not a "terrorist" in the sense that he ever sponsored terrorist attacks against the U.S.A., yet there are a lot of seemingly very intelligent and honest people who nevertheless persistently conflate Saddam and Osama, and I still don't understand the motivation why or even the mechanism how, knowing what they know, they can do that.
Yours WDK - WKiernan at ij.net