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Some of these are the same people who express Capt. Renault-style shock - shock! - that anyone could hold the similarly detached-from-reality view that 9/11 was a big conspiracy which benefited from the involvement of the White House. Pot, meet kettle.
For the dead-enders, these are articles of faith. Saddam had WMDs. And returning to what you wrote yesterday about Krauthammer, it is also an article of faith that radical Islamists are everywhere, and that they want to kill us.
I see a great deal of similarity between these people and those who claim to see images of the Virgin Mary everywhere, from slices of pizza to patches of mold of the sides of refrigerators (apologies to Berke Breathed).
You simply can't reason with these people, because their faith that these crackpot notions are true is apparently unshakable. The only thing you can do is point out how delusional they are and hope that the "reputable" publications that continue to publish them realize how much their credibility is being shot by their continuing associations with those who peddle such harebrained stories.
