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To: Elroy who wrote (226712)	3/28/2005 8:49:19 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576113

"so please provide data which supports the idea that the Bush administration was saying coalition troops would be out of Iraq within months. I doubt it exists." I never said it existed. They frame their statements to give those impressions, and when Fox et al runs with those impressions, they do nothing to counter them. Then, when it doesn't work out, they point out that they never said whatever is in dispute. It is like with the Iraqi-9/11 connection. While they never said that Saddam was involved with the events of 9/11, they repeatedly made speeches where they talked about bin Laden, Saddam and 9/11 all mixed together. When the commentators took it and ran with it, they didn't make a peep. When others tried to pin them about whether or not they were linking those, they avoided answering instead of denying they were claiming a link. And so on. The reason why is a significant percentage of Americans believe that Saddam was involved in 9/11 and that weapons of mass destruction have been found in Iraq is not because they are stupid, it is because those impressions are fostered by the Administration and the media for a lot of reasons cannot counter them. Even for politicians, their commitment to reality is tenuous at best.