According to a new Harris Poll, Americans now are more inclined than they were in the past two years to believe that Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction. However, Harris questions this changing attitude since, as it points out, news media have “widely reported” that no WMD have been found. Perhaps the pollsters failed to consider that the June 21 revelation by Sen. Rick Santorum (R-Pa.) and Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-Mich.) that newly declassified material “proves” that WMD exist in Iraq has filtered out to the American populace.
Denys Overholser, the Lockheed Martin engineer whose insights on the mathematics of radar cross section led directly to the first operational stealth attack airplane and permanently reshaped combat aircraft design and tactics, died April 28 at the age of 86.