<!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 6.00.2900.2523" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY bottomMargin=0 leftMargin=3 topMargin=0 rightMargin=3> <DIV>Michael Pollak wrote:</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>> <EM>This is a recurringly amazing chestnut.  But what's really amazing is</EM></DIV> <DIV>> <EM>that that the portion holding these views has gone substantially *up</EM></DIV> <DIV>> <EM>in the past two months* -- when the refutations have been as total<BR></EM>> <EM>and official and well publicized as it is imaginable for them to be<BR></EM>> <EM>(the 9/11 Commission report, which astonishingly became a best<BR></EM>> <EM>seller, and the Duelfer Report, which received enormous coverage<BR></EM>> <EM>just a second ago); and when even the Administration has been<BR></EM>> <EM>forced, on the surface, it seemed, to say uncle. It's not that the press<BR></EM>> <EM>hasn't been able to make headway against the original lies.  It's that<BR></EM>> <EM>lies are still making headway and persuading new converts.</EM></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Carrol Cox wrote:</DIV> <DIV><BR>> <EM>Let's translate this into actuality. Roughly half the adult<BR></EM>> <EM>population votes. Roughly half of them ar Bush supporters.<BR></EM>> <EM>So what we have above is roughly 3/4 of 1/4 of the population.<BR></EM>> <EM>Why are you so concerned with them? This list reads more like<BR></EM>> <EM>the sports pages than a list devoted to political/cultural analysis.<BR></EM>> <EM>If our left fielder can get his average up just a few points; if we<BR></EM>> <EM>can fix that weakness at left defensive guard; if ...., then maybe</EM></DIV> <DIV>> <EM>we can ...."<BR></EM></DIV> <DIV>So why are you among the most active participants?  Why return daily to such a profound disappointment?</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>-- Shane</DIV> <DIV> </DIV></BODY></HTML>