Folks need to make up their own minds. They need to do it on the best and clearest information they can get.

The fact that on the eve of the invasion of Iraq up to 60% of the American public, thereabouts, believed Hussein had a direct connection with the attacks on the WTC is an appalling reminder that the commodity of stupidity or wilful ignorance and hypnotic suggestibility is still a very hot market.

Those who promulgate snide and hate-filled generalizations --a sin of which I am not wholly innocent--need to consider what they are contributing to the matrix of knowledge--or lack thereof--of the culture into which they inject their statements.


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