On Thursday, December 20, 2001, at 07:07 PM, Lawrence Upton wrote:
> It's good if we are getting more realistic figures, but the lies have
> served
> their purpose successfully...
There's precious little evidence that the Guardian's figures any more
accurate than the Pentagon's, or that the Pentagon has been lying, or
that the Guardian is lying. People have chosen to believe the
statistics that fit their expectations. Since none of us has access to
real data, why not just drop it and talk about poetry -- something we,
presumably, know something about.
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