(IH&PE) Bush and Ideology

The National Intelligence Estimate, in a sharp rebuke to Bush's bellicose anti-Iran "WWWIII" rhetoric, just this week revealed (in concert with earlier statements from the UN's IAEA) that Iran suspended its nuclear weapons projects years ago.

Bush responds: “I believed before the NIE that Iran was dangerous and I believe after the NIE that Iran is dangerous.”

And, as we've noted several times, Peter Singer writes: "It's a distinctive characteristic of an ideology that it resists refutation."

Bush's words seem to follow this inferential pattern:

1. I believe X.
2. My hand-picked experts soaking up $44 billion taxpayer funds annually to help inform my beliefs say not-X.
3. I still believe X.
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Therefore ... ? (I mysteriously have access to better information than even the world's most extensive/expensive information-gathering agencies? I'm lying? I'm willfully ignorant? I speak directly with 'God'?)

You pick.