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For example: you could have easily changed the tenor of this discussion and inoculated yourself from accusations of "official" bias by pointing out how data -- including supposed "photographic evidence" of mobile WMD labs -- was either misinterpreted or misused by various officials in the run-up to the Iraq War. How many neo-cons still stubbornly believe in those imaginary WMD labs they once thought they saw?
The piece you're reading is an excerpt from my book; the book, in fact, focuses on many other examples -- such as the one you cite above -- of people becoming divorced from reality. It examines in full the Rashomon culture you discuss; that's its point, indeed.
