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Originally Posted by Profits of Doom
If you were in the same situation you would have believed it, too. None of us are so informed or omniscient that we know more than the government tells us, no matter how intelligent we would like to believe we are.
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Do you seriously rely on a corrupt government to tell you the truth on anything?
Nope - I never believed it for one fleeting moment. In fact, said at the time that this was no more than a pack of lies. This may also have something to do with not believing a word of what a tosspot in government says and that has nothing to do with intelligence.
Anyone with any sense knew very well that the display provided to the UN was a series of lies - or, at least most of the world knew. The world press had already ran the stories and accompanying images of alleged "sites containing WMD" - they had been there and found no traces of WMD. Even the head of IAEA knew very well that the US was lying - he told them very clearly there was little chance of WMD and burst out laughing when asked on CNN, "Do you think Saddam will use WMD against our invading forces?".
It's a sick friggin joke and sad anyone considered this seriously - but, with plenty hate propaganda and total lying bullshit - you can convince anyone that pigs fly and 5% play violins. It's the same bullshit now with Iran - awesome that people actually believe the hate/propaganda dialog - but they do and you can lie to them multiple times over and still they believe it. Sad.