re: #700 LudwigVanQuixote

Oh I think the deniers have of all stripes have to know that on some level they are spouting lies. Consider the argument that the propaganda for starting the Iraq war was something other than a nuclear threat… Those people were here in the same country we were and heard the same broadcasts and speeches from the Bush administration. Surely on some level they know they are stretching things really thin..

Some of them know and some of them don’t. Willfully ignorant applies in many cases, like not looking at links they’re given. These were the same ones who were also willfully ignorant at the time and kept screaming at anyone with questions that they were antiamerican, supporting terrorists, and commiting treason— because they had questions.

Sudden amnesia about why we went to Iraq is imo willfully ignorant, as is denial about torture. Same with Halliburton/rape/Franken amendment.
AGW, I honestly think that many are too fucking stupid to understand the data even when it’s given to them.