O'Neill on Iraq's Tortured Children

Brendan O'Neill tackles the story "about Iraq storing dead babies' bodies so that it then can parade them through the streets in propagandistic mass funerals," which I briefly mentioned a few days ago. His conclusion:

why are so many willing to believe the dead baby story without the same standards of proof we would normally demand - especially for something so shocking? It seems that when it comes to Iraq, some people will buy any story. Many on the right champion reason and rationality, but Iraq is their blindspot, the issue on which they will trumpet anything that bolsters their case for invading and bombing Iraq. And in the absence of any hard, coherent evidence that Iraq poses a threat to the West, any old hearsay will do.