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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH
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To: sandintoes who wrote (334918)12/30/2002 12:50:00 PM
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If you aren't willing to question authority, then there's no reason to. The prime reason for discussion is to determine what we're being told by authorities that may not be factual. If we could trust gov't, discussions would revolve around completely different issues, i.e., implementation.

Facts have a life of their own, and can threaten deeply-held beliefs that we'd like to have, such as "honest leadership" or "honest gov't", instead of a gov't that systematically subverts the truth in its own interest with thousands of "public affairs officials" across hundreds of departments, issuing hundreds of press releases per day. Or more to the point, top officials who lie routinely about anything they think they can get away with, such as going AWOL in the service, for a very minor example.
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