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Today's regime fall in Iraq marks a big day in modern history, and Dick Morris was on the Fox News Channel talking about why liberals were so wrong in their anti-war positions. As he spoke, his words led me to think about our dialogue on this thread.

I didn't write them down, so I can't provide exact quotes; but Morris explained the liberal's problem in terms such as "Detachment from reality" and "Minds stuffed full of propaganda."

I'll let you connect the dots.

Wouldn't it be hypocritical of you to contend that I am filled with propaganda unless you could tell me in all honesty that your postings to me are not the product of a kind of propaganda, or "conditioning"? I can tell that 3/4 of what you have written to me is from materials that come from your belief system - quotations, writings and sayings common to your system of belief.

Aren't you, then, as conditioned as I am; filled with ideas that came to you from your peers and from your own group of leaders? Doesn't that make you as "propagandized" as I am?

I find it more difficult to see someone whose pain has turned into bitterness than I do someone who simply believes in a different thing than I do. If I'm wrong in my implication, then simply stop writing to me.

Also, I could take Ayn's saying, "Check your premises" a step further: "Consider your sources." (I'll leave you to think about this.)