Paul Krugman: Reign of Error

Now, we all live in LaLa land, where "facts" really are stupid and no amount of rational reasoning can prevail over the irrational ranting of the far right and their noise machine.

WMD my ass! Even David Kay said that he had chemicals under his kitchen sink that are more dangerous than the badly disintergrated mustard gas in those old shells buried in the Iraqi wilderness.

Yes, I imagine that those shells could be harmful to children who did not know any better than to mess with them, but so can the land mines we leave everywhere, not to mention the Depleted Uranium we used in Gulf War I, Kosovo and, now, in Iraq again.

Let's face it, the only WMD in Iraq is what we have used there.

What to do about epidemic stupidity in America? Damned if I know, but I'm not sure I want to live out the rest of my days with it.

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Amid everything else that's going wrong in the world, here's one more piece of depressing news: a few days ago the Harris Poll reported that 50 percent of Americans now believe that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction when we invaded, up from 36 percent in February 2005. Meanwhile, 64 percent still believe that Saddam had strong links with Al Qaeda.

At one level, this shouldn't be all that surprising. The people now running America never accept inconvenient truths. Long after facts they don't like have been established, whether it's the absence of any wrongdoing by the Clintons in the Whitewater affair or the absence of W.M.D. in Iraq, the propaganda machine that supports the current administration is still at work, seeking to flush those facts down the memory hole.

But it's dismaying to realize that the machine remains so effective.

Here's how the process works.........