[lbo-talk] Bush Supporters Still Believe Iraq Had WMD

[Carl Remick]

>From: Michael Pollak <mpollak at panix.com>
>
>... The lies of this administration really do seem different in nature than 
>any lies we've seen in living memory.  It's not just that they went to war 
>on the basis of lies, or they they are campaigning on them -- we've seen 
>both of those things before, if not to the same degree.  But what's 
>baffling and amazing is how they are able to maintain them -- and even to 
>strengthen them -- in the face of combined resistance of all the 
>institutions that have normally defined the consensus wisdom.
>
>The amazing thing about faith-based reality is how they've been able to 
>spread the faith -- and how nothing seems able to stop them.  No wonder 
>they believe.  From all the signs, something really has changed.

We are in the far, far reaches of epistemological zaniness for sure.  To 
complete the cycle of incredulousness, however, I will say I simply don't 
believe that people don't believe the facts.  I deny their denial.  I hope 
that trying to escape their escapism this way will keep me from panicking 
and fleeing the country.

Carl