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Politics : Formerly About Applied Materials
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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (70146)4/30/2003 3:45:33 PM
From: runes  Read Replies (1) of 70976
 
<<Thanks to this pattern of loud assertions and muted or suppressed retractions, the American public probably believes that we went to war to avert an immediate threat — just as it believes that Saddam had something to do with Sept. 11. >>
...And isn't that the sad truth!

I am reminded that a poll taken at the start of the war found that 35% of Americans believed that Saddam was involved in the attack on the WTC.

I am not sure which bothers me more - that the public are so easily led astray or that we are governed by politicians who's careers depend on their ability to lead us astray. (And here I do not differentiate between the elephants and the donkeys).
...There are days when I think that our declining education system is actually a ploy by politicians in order to make us more easily controlled.
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