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I hate being mislead as much as the next guy, and the article is depressingly short on citations (probably to rally skeptics to buy the book) but I'll quote Peter Norvig here and say, "do your own research": http://norvig.com/oreskes.html I don't care where the ideas come from if they're verifiable.

You are correct. Always, check your sources:

http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Hudson_Institute

The PNAC. I still cannot get over them. A perfect storm they rode, in plain sight, documented. Unbelievable.

I find it unbelievable that a bunch of guys whose job was to sit around and write papers were able to hijack the USA and destroy Iraq.

Also unbelievable was the level of mind control that the public was amenable to. The media cheerleading, people screaming, "Shut up! Support your troops!" All the predictions the objectors had came true, and yet a large segment of the population is still drinking the Kool Aid. Scary.