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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (3777)	2/7/2006 5:10:27 PM
From: haqihana	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71588

Peter, This "thing" with journalists, teachers, professors, and politicians, began when the Clintons were stumbling through the dictionary, and came across the word "consensus" (collective opinion). So they have decided that, if there are more people in their clique has the same opinion, than those that don't, that opinion is a fact. That way, they can claim that they are in the majority by polling those they know agree with them. Just think how many people there are that they don't know, and may well have different opinions. They are ignored. The end result, is a minority opinion is considered to be fact. Talk about skewing the truth!!! Big business has always had a presence in Congress, and some times with administrations, but the power of organized labor unions, is relatively new, and began to have some strength that began after WW2. I'm familiar with the author of that post. Even though he says he is conservative, he is radical, and the radical people all over the world are the ones that are causing the trouble. That copied, and pasted, harangue didn't sound conservative, I may have remembered the wrong person in the comments above. Either he is lying, or the soldiers he knows are lying, or he came in contact with the wrong people. I have heard many members of the military that have returned from Iraq, some wounded, that say they made great strides with the people of Iraq, and were treated like knights in shining armor.