Why I don't like my family

My father scares me. The following is an excerpt from an email he sent me a little before this last election, one of a very long string of emails, each one more vindictive than the last. My father listens to and believes almost everything people like Rush Limbaugh say. And then, he calls me a fringe leftist and claims to represent the better part of the American people. I have not the words.
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At root of every valid decision must be a regard for actual facts. For example, Kerry's ranting this week about the 380 tons of "weapons" that were "looted" and got into the insurgents' hands and are being used against our troops because Bush did not secure them.

Fact 1. There were no weapons there. What was there was (at least at some time in the past) a stock of precursor material to explosive compounds--which would have to be further processed and packaged in order to be used for explosive purposes.

Fact 2. That amount of material could not have been "looted." It would have taken dozens of trucks working long hours to cart the stuff off--impossible with the roads controlled by coalition forces.

Fact 3. Whatever was there before, was gone already before the U.S. troops arrived. That was noted already during the first days of the war by an NBC reporter embedded with the U.S. troops in the campaign. The report is a matter of public record. (Latest evidence is that Russian Army troops assisted Iraqi intelligence officers in moving the material before the war started.)

Fact 4: The alleged 380 tons would account for less than 0.1% of the stockpiles of armaments already destroyed by American troops, with about the same amount remaining to be destroyed.

Kerry knew all this. He chose to lie about it in hopes of deluding ignorant and soft-minded people into voting for him. And he continues to lie about it even after the facts are becoming widely known.

The whole anti-war movement has been propelled by such lies--from Vietnam to the present. I imagine I will find similar lies throughout the articles you cite. It is a strange thing that the Michael Moore movie is being more and more accepted as "true" by many people, even though it has been shown to be a string of falsehoods and distortions from beginning to end. One example: Moore claims that Bush allowed relatives of Bin Laden's family to escape immediately after 9/11. Truth, they were all exhaustively interviewed by the FBI before they were allowed to leave, and the person who approved their departure was Richard Clark. Bush never even heard of it until it was already done. Clark told Moore that, but Moore chose to ignore the truth and proceed with the falsehood.

This is the sort of thing which brought Germany under Nazi control. It was the stock in trade of the international Communist movement, which resulted in the deaths of tens of millions of people and enslavement of many millions more. Freedom cannot survive if people can be led to accept outright lies as if they were true. The Deaniacs have effectively captured the Democrat party. Their antics get more and more strange as time goes by. The wackiest conspiracy theories wax and thrive. Tonight Alan Colmes had on his radio show a guy who with a straight face claimed that Vice-President Cheney had a leading role in the 9/11 attacks--and Colmes was taking the guy seriously. As has been said: Liberalism is a mental disease.