While I've been taking a sabbatical over the past few weeks, that doesn't mean I've been out of touch. Earlier this week I was following the discussion thread in regards to a post on World Magazine Blog. The post, "What happened to the WMD's" discusses an article in World Tribune about a UN commission announcing discovery of Iraqi banned weapons found in European junk metal dumps.
What struck me was not so much the article or post, I've thought that given time, these things would begin to show up, just like the mustard and sarin gas has. The amazing thing is the inability of left leaning ideologues to take a factual look at the evidence and acknowledge it.
There was disparaging of the immediate source of the article. It began with a characterization of the Tribune as a biased arm of the Universalist Church...maybe it is but an albeit brief search failed to confirm it.
Then a comment was made that the information wasn't available anywhere except on the World Tribune site. I found that again to be wrong with a simple Google search. Then one commentator said he wouldn't believe it until it was on the front page of the New York Times. Well, while it wasn't on the front page, it was in the Times, on June 9th fully five days before the questioner made his comment.
Another said there wasn't any mention of it on the UN's site, so it had to be bogus. In fact there is an article in the UN News Service dated June 7 with links to the actual report by the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (UNMOVIC).
After this, the whole discussion degenerated into a name calling session from both those on the left and the right. At that point, I quit following it.
I think a lot of problems would be resolved if folk would just look at facts and accept them. Certainly there are those from both sides who would put out disinformation to serve their agenda, and the media on a whole need to be monitored and verified in the stuff they put out. But when facts are verified, accept them and stand down!
It seems like those defending indefensible positions often pointedly fail to verify on fear they may lose their position. Sadly when they are shown to be factually wrong, they entrench and in the process lose not only their position, but their credibility as well.

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