“The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.” Elbert Hubbard

Is that why when the evidence to the contrary, Bush and co repeatedly revert to what "they believe"?

“Nothing in the world is more dangerous than a sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.” Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sums up the right wing evangelicals who, lo and behold, vote right wing.

“He must be very ignorant for he answers every question he is asked” Voltaire

You mean like Richard Perle and the neocons who pose a question and answer it in the same sentence ie. does anyone believe blah blah blah....I don't think so.

“The greatest ignorance is to reject something you know nothing about"

Like insisting that Iraq had WMD and AQ connections or insisting that Iran has nukes in spite of 16 intelligence agencies arguing tot eh contrary?