{"id":14801,"date":"2003-06-16T17:17:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-16T17:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/16\/who-needs-reality\/"},"modified":"2003-06-16T17:17:00","modified_gmt":"2003-06-16T17:17:00","slug":"who-needs-reality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/16\/who-needs-reality\/","title":{"rendered":"Who needs reality?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/mld\/inquirer\/news\/front\/6085261.htm\" target=\"_blank\">University of Maryland poll<\/a>, not the average US citizen.  The poll found that one-third of Americans think that <acronym title=\"Weapons of Mass Destruction\">WMD<\/acronym> have been found in Iraq.  Perhaps more amazing is that 22% thought that WMD were used during the war. It gets better.  Over half of the people questioned think that some of the Sept. 11 hijackers were from Iraq.  I don&rsquo;t know whether to be sad or angry. What scares me is that we have an administration that is so willing manipulate the feeble minded masses.  Just look back on history and think how many totalitarian regimes drew their power from the fear and ignorance of their populations.  Damn, time to move to Sweden.       <\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-200429305?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to a University of Maryland poll, not the average US citizen. The poll found that one-third of Americans think that WMD have been found in Iraq. Perhaps more amazing is that 22% thought that WMD were used during the war. It gets better. Over half of the people questioned think that some of the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/06\/16\/who-needs-reality\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Who needs reality?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}