--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Aside from the fact that it wasn't about smart and stupid or > access to truth...
You certainly fooled me.... particularly from the excerpts you posted. --- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > "Another possible explanation is that Bush supporters cling to > these beliefs because they are necessary for > their support for the decision to go to war with Iraq. Another explanation is that public opinion polls are notoriously very poor at dealing with very complex issues. (And I'd also add that two-year-old opinion polls are poor at describing that nation's opinions on current events.) For example, it is a *fact* that before the invasion Saddam Hussein had a chemical weapons program - we have crystal clear records of him using them. As a second example, if the poll had asked "did Saddam Hussein comply with the Chapter VII UN Security Resolutions requiring Iraq's disarmament of WMD's" do you think that more Republicans or more Democrats would answer correctly. I'll bet dollars to donuts on the Republicans. JDG P.S. On a somewhat unrelated note there has been this interesting update on the Valerie Plame affair: http://www.slate.com/id/2145889/ Looks like I wasn't so far off when in my first reaction to the "scandal" I noted that - 'wait, the wife of a diplomat was really a spy?? No way! Who would've *ever* thought that!' _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
