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You know, there were a lot of credible sources out there, including the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace, who disputed many Bush administration claims about WMD from the beginning, and the most credible ones were careful to distinguish between chemical, biological and nuclear threat analyses. At least some US Senators, including Joe Biden, who voted in favour of the Iraq resolution (for reasons that are worthy of another post!) knew the real scoop on ‘WMD’ and did not buy the administration’s pre-war rhetoric. I guess the moral of this story is simply that if you want to be informed about any complex issue, you cannot and should not rely solely on the media, and certainly not on just two or three sources. We have to take responsiblity for our own enlightenment, particularly in these times, when our own lack of awareness – due to laziness, time constraints, just too many pressing personal concerns about living our own lives – can l 2ead to such dire and fatal consequences as war can bring. My point continues to be that constantly blaming the media for our own lack of critical thinking – common sense, even – on any number of pressing issues of our time is not going to do much to solve the problem of a severely uninformed electorate. By: LizM on December 17, 2006 at 10:04pm