Well, that's the pot calling the kettle black. Just seeing all your posts with Daniel and others is enough for me. I might win a skirmish here or there, but you probably reign supreme in the war of idiocy... Of course, not that you're an idiot; that would be wrong to say.

>>Actually, you were right and I was wrong earlier. This is now the most idiotic thing I've heard......
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>I was going to vote for your "ok to lie us into war, everybody lies" theme-related post you made back in November (message #1065110) as the most idiotic. But your post here has forced me to reconsider. With this post, you are calling Greenwald's position idiotic, but your November post confirms Greenwald's position. Quite the quandary.
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>>>Found this as part of someone's blog. Kind of explains things:
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>>>As much as anything else, Bush defenders are characterized by an increasingly absolutist refusal to recognize any facts which conflict with their political desires, and conversely, by a borderline-religious embrace of any assertions which bolster those desires. It's a world-view which conflates desire with reality, disregards all facts and evidence that conflict with the decreed beliefs, and faithfully embraces any assertions and fantasies, no matter how baseless and flagrantly false, provided that they bolster the mythology.
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>>>Thus, things are going really great in Iraq - just as we predicted they would. When we invaded, Saddam had WMD's and he was funding Al Qaeda. Oil revenues will pay for the whole thing, we will be welcomed as liberators, the whole war will be won quickly and easily. A large military presence is unnecessary because there is no insurgency. Bush is a popular and beloved President. All but a handful of radical fringe subversives in America support the war and believe terrorism is the overarching problem. Americans want to militarily confront Iran, want illegal warrantless eavesdropping, and are happy with how the country is being governed.
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>>>It never matters how much evidence arises demonstrating the falsity of these beliefs. They are not susceptible to challenge or reconsideration because they are the by-product of faith and desire and not a critical or rational assessment. They believe these things because they want to believe them, they have to believe them, because the whole world-view on which their identity and purpose has come to be based -- the brave, heroic President leading the great conservative nation in glorious, epic war-triumph over the evil Muslim enemy -- depends upon believing these myths. No facts can shake these beliefs because they aren't grounded in facts and aren't the by-product of rationality.
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>>>This has to do with certain reviewers comparing political books that are on the shelf now. You can read the rest here:
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>>>http://glenngreenwald.blogspot.com/2006/04/anatomy-of-thought-process-of-bush.html