A new poll by the Program on International Policy Attitudes finds that 41 percent of Americans either believe that W.M.D.'s have been found, or aren't sure.

The program's director suggests that "some Americans may be avoiding having an experience of cognitive dissonance."

"There has been a thundering silence in the broadcast media about the broadcast industry's push to eliminate media ownership rules," said Chris Murray, legislative counsel at Consumers Union, publishers of Consumer Reports.

the draft contained such questionable material that Powell lost his temper, throwing several pages in the air and declaring, "I'm not reading this. This is bullshit."


But the message from the majority was plain enough, and quite widely heard in Britain these days; once we believed in him, now we don’t, and we’re probably never going to vote again.... we will never grow out of that Cinderella fantasy that some great leader - some blue-eyed boy or girl in an open-necked shirt - is going to come along and save us from our own worst instincts.