Debbie
Banned
Debbie. My advice is to believe governments that operate in an open democracy, open to scrutiny from their populace and press. I would be inclined to doubt information that comes from "closed" regimes such as those of Iran, Syria, etc.
alanf85, what you say makes sense to me, but in the case of terrorist plots and terrorism I don't think the USA and UK can be appropriately classified as 'open democracies' in dealing with the terrorist threat. I just look at all the lies and secrecy and hushed up deals that have been going on since Sept 11, and I simply cannot trust Bush or Blair, and I cannot trust that we are getting all the information, or that the info we are getting is 100% true.
Bush has been proved over and over and over and over and over again to be a liar. But that being said, I hardly trust Islamic extremists who want to blow up innocent people in the name of an imagined holy war.