Re: >>"Let us assume you are correct here, and that Bush only took "one side of the evidence." It could easily have been the case, and likely is, that he thought the side he chose was most obviously the factual side. Perhaps he also believed acceptance of the rejected side presented too great a risk to the nation. That in a world of nukes, chemical and biological weapons, a proven rogue like Saddam must be compelled to uphold his obligations to the world community. Indeed, this is what Bush once claimed.(sigh)"<<
Look at the implications of your statement:
If he "decided" that the side he chose was the "factual" side, then were there no longer two sides to the issue?
How did he "decide" that the experts whose job it was to analyze these issues and who were telling him that there was insufficient evidence upon which to make his "decisions," were WRONG?
Would a reasonable person listening to the proclamations of Bush and his spokesman have seriously doubted that there was a mountain of "proof" to support the strong declarations of "fact" and evidence that he was making?
In a matter involving war and the certain death of some of our Soldiers, was it acceptable for the president of the United States to argue his case to the American public like a lawyer representing only one side in a trial, or did he have an obligation to present both sides to the American public and the Congress?
In making the choice that one side of the evidence was right and then presenting it as if it were undeniable "fact," and ignoring the experts and evidence that correctly pointed out that there was insufficient evidence upon which to arrive at such a conclusion, can we learn something about the intellectual grasp of our president? Does it tell us something about his propensity to see "evil" and "danger" even when it may not be present? Should that worry us?
Does, and would, a continuing pattern of such "decision" and subsequent "actions" benefit America and the world?
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If you want to make a friggin' living at this mess, then you better start selling weapons, get started in the oil business, try to hook onto the election campaign of the next, and new, president of the United States, or get that Baton Rouge "thang" going and write novels about an ex-cop detective who works out of one of the parishes there. |
