June 27, 2003
Long time...
I haven't written for a long time, the intertwined tendrils of life stopping me updating. I have many things to catch up on. First off, I missed writing about the "retraction by The Guardian":http://www.guardian.co.uk/corrections/story/0,3604,970468,00.html on the suggestion that Straw and Powell had a skeptical meeting over WMD evidence. The whole affair seems quite strange in that the retraction seems incomplete, and Straw's denials were not related to the piece; as usual "The Lincoln Plawg":http://lincolnplawg.blogspot.com/2003_06_01_lincolnplawg_archive.html#95359980 has much to say on the issue.
Secondly, an interesting poll by "PIPA (published June 4th)":http://pipa.org/whatsnew/html/new_6_04_03.html on US citizens perceptions after the war show that over a third of them thought the US had already found WMD!!! And 22% had believed that the Iraqis has used biological/chemical weapons during the war. Nice to see US citizens keeping well informed on the 'true' state of affairs (i.e. those dictated by official Government positions). The author of the poll "(see the questions here)":http://www.pipa.org/OnlineReports/Iraq/Iraqqaire_5_03.pdf suggests people _" desire to reduce cognitive dissonance "_ over the whole contentious issue, and is is so nice to see citizens dumbing down to make the Governments hard work spinning wars so much easier.
Posted by Ian at June 27, 2003 04:43 AM
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