[IRAQ]: cognitive dissonance

From: Michael Wiik (mwiik@messagenet.com)
Date: Mon Jun 16 2003 - 09:26:26 MDT

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    I thought this was interesting:

    <<A third of the American public believes U.S. forces found weapons of
    mass destruction in Iraq, according to a recent poll, and 22 percent
    said Iraq actually used chemical or biological weapons.

    But no such weapons have been found, nor is there evidence they were
    used recently in Iraq.

    Before the war, half of those polled in a survey said Iraqis were among
    the 19 hijackers on Sept. 11, 2001. But most of them were from Saudi
    Arabia. None were Iraqis.

    [...]

    "Given the intensive news coverage and high levels of public attention,"
    he said, "this level of misinformation suggests some Americans may be
    avoiding having an experience of cognitive dissonance."

    That is, having their beliefs conflict with the facts.

    Kull said the poll's data showed the mistaken belief that weapons of
    mass destruction were found "is substantially greater among those who
    favored the war.">>

    http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/6086632.htm

    Oh, in case you missed it, the latest 'smoking sun' (the two alleged WMD
    production trailers) is another Bush lie, per 'an official British
    investigation':

    <<An official British investigation into two trailers found in northern
    Iraq has concluded they are not mobile germ warfare labs, as was claimed
    by Tony Blair and President George Bush, but were for the production of
    hydrogen to fill artillery balloons, as the Iraqis have continued to insist.

    [...]

    The revelation that the mobile labs were to produce hydrogen for
    artillery balloons will also cause discomfort for the British
    authorities because the Iraqi army's original system was sold to it by
    the British company, Marconi Command & Control.>>

    http://www.observer.co.uk/international/story/0,6903,977853,00.html

    Fun stuff,
            -Mike

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