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To: one_less who wrote (237994)	7/26/2007 7:13:03 PM
From: Nadine Carroll	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

You don’t believe the military and you declare Bush to be a liar… I don’t believe you believe it but I believe it is useful to you to declare you believe it. Say what? Where did I say that? I believe just the opposite. I have a real tough time dealing with the word ‘believe’ these days. As I get older, I doubt more and more that most people actually believe what they report their beliefs to be, especially when political or material interests are intertwined with the statement I'm not sure what kind of distinction you are trying to draw between "true" belief and "acculturated" belief but it seems a fuzzy one. Of course very few people have ardent faith or have reasoned from first premises; the rest believe partly on experience and thought, and partly from authority or just because the belief is commonly held. That's life, so what? I doubt the members of left wing media actually disbelieve evidence presented from military Does it matter what they "actually believe"? They habitually write as if they disbelieve it. A less biased account would have said that while many experts doubted the AQ-AQI connection, this capture was the most recent in a chain of evidence showing a connection at the top levels of leadership. Why should I care if this is thought-out behavior or herd instinct? It is what it is and it is worth noting imo. You need to know the biases to judge the lay of the land.