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To: Rambi who wrote (12113)	2/15/2006 12:48:48 PM
From: epicure	Read Replies (1) of 541701

I think some of us, based on Cheney's DUI history and the beer remark, might legitimately wonder if alcohol was involved. To state it as a fact would be unfair, and illogical, but to wonder about it seems perfectly ok to me. If Clinton shot someone out hunting, I would probably wonder if he had been drinking too (and then I might also wonder if maybe a pretty girl distracted him). I think Kholt nailed it when she mentioned patterns, but seeing patterns, and believing absolutely that they are true, are different things. You and I saw patterns in the ME which made us doubt the necessity for the Iraq war, and also fear for its outcome- and we both so posted. We couldn't be absolutely sure about our conclusions before the fact, but we did see the patterns. I think some people are more prone to seeing the patterns as absolute truth than others- and that's a hard thing to cure- and it seems unfair, because it IS unfair. You can't call a hypothesis truth until you've tested it well against reality, and reality has been the making of it.

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