50% OF AMERICANS......"INDEPENDENT OF REALITY" THINKING

This isn't today's news, but it just blows my mind. The world must look on and think.....what idiots!!!

Half of America believes it: Why the enduring faith in 'Saddam's WMDs'?
Khaleej Times (AP) 6 August 2006 NEW YORK - Do you believe in Iraqi 'WMD'? Did Saddam Hussein's government have weapons of mass destruction in 2003? Half of America apparently still thinks so, a new poll finds, and experts see a raft of reasons why: a drumbeat of voices from talk radio to die-hard bloggers to the Oval Office, a surprise headline here or there, a rallying around a partisan flag, and a growing need for people, in their own minds, to justify the war in Iraq. People tend to become 'independent of reality' in these circumstances, says opinion analyst Steven Kull. The reality in this case is that after a 16-month, $900-million -plus (Ð700-million-plus) investigation, the US weapons hunters known as the Iraq Survey Group declared that Iraq had dismantled its chemical, biological and nuclear arms programs in 1991 under UN oversight.

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