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AwakeNotWoke's avatar

You make a good point but I think it's also similar to the groupthink that happened 20 years ago with the WMDs in Iraq scam. That was an IQ test too. Nobody with 2 intact neurons to rub together believed it for a nanosecond. Getting sucked in by BS and propaganda is not an indicator of ability to reason.

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Tom Tunes's avatar

As a f

Good Turkish friend said to me: “The Iraquis couldn’t make a screw!”

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TRM's avatar

LOL. I fell for the second Iraq war. It wasn't the dog and pony show, I thought that was BS, but the original inspectors (Blix I think) found equipment labelled "smallpox" and everything else you can think of.

The book "The Demon in the Freezer" covers a lot of it.

Six months later with zip to show I was really pissed off at myself. Good wake up call for me.

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