(chuckle...) The patently obvious (that the US government frequently tells outright lies, and eveb more frequently lies by omission) is still not obvious to those who don't want to think about it, and would rather think about something else...like how evil Saddam is...which is also so obvious that a dead wallaby could figure it out.

Like I've said before, people seek out only the facts that justify their own preconceived prejudices...and they ignore, deny, or dismiss as unimportant the facts that don't. And life goes on.

Meanwhile the System robs all of us daily as it conveniently maneuvers us into wasting our time and energy fighting each other across the phony liberal/conservative divide. Divide and conquer. "You can always get one half of the poor to kill the other half for you." The ordinary public IS the poor...worldwide. That includes you and me and Doug R, but we're not as poor as ordinary Third World people yet...so some of us consent willingly to be led by the nose by the Powers That Be...and others put up with it resentfully. You can call the former "conservatives" and the latter "liberals", if you want. The labels are misleading.

- LH