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To: Neocon who wrote (131395)	5/4/2004 2:48:27 PM
From: cnyndwllr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Neocon, you're the one who wrote; "I am more inclined to trust persons of experience, character, and judgment, like Powell and Rumsfeld..." The point I was making was that you should not "trust" anyone for your views of the facts, especially not those with the political and government responsibilities and the track records of Rumsfeld and Powell. Not only are they subject to misjudgments, they are also promoting an agenda and have biases and responsibilities that are inconsistent with their telling of the full truth. You can call it spin but their "information" is often deceptive and misleading. Take the example of the wmds. As it turns out no one should have "trusted" their certainty on the wmd issue. Not only did they turn out to have been at least "mistaken" in their pronouncements on the nature and scope of such "deadly weapons of mass destruction," it turns out that they were clearly LYING in terms of the certainty with which they expressed their faulty facts. In fact the information at the time could best be characterized as "we 'think' they have some chemical and biological weapons of some amount and for sure we don't know that they don't have them." If you look a little further up the line at Cheney's pronouncement that "we now KNOW that Iraq has reconstituted it's nuclear program," the "trust" issue is even more clearly debunked. At the highest level; President Bush often seems content to lay his mistakes and erroneous statements off on bad information from his advisors. Sometimes incompetency IS a defense to the charge of dishonesty but the end result is that those who trust are still mislead. In these times when the lives of our young men and women at stake, when there is a growing threat of violence against our people and when there is so much to lose or gain, I would think that we'd all question those who've assured us of the accuracy of too many things that turned out to be almost the polar opposite of what we were told. Those who think critically and possess good minds can find the truth even when it lies hidden in a mosaic of lies. Those with good minds who trust in the accuracy of the conclusions and allegations of "facts" of others, will be continually misled by those with agendas that cause them to shield or disguise the truth. For a good mind like yours, trust in the facts and conclusions reached by others should be guarded closely and given sparingly.