<And how long would you like the jury to stay "out"?
Two more months.>
Why? The inspectors, our inspectors, have looked everywhere, and found nothing. There will be no more evidence (or, rather, lack of evidence) in two months, than there is today.
When people are sure that Clinton lied, but deny that Bush lied, they are just engaging in partisan politics. They are only willing to see the faults of people whose politics they disagree with. This is what corrodes the principle of equality before the law.
In order to deny that Bush lied, you've got to accept some very implausible things. You've got to believe that the Iraqis were amazingly efficient and quick, in a wartime environment, in getting rid of a massive amount of evidence. Further, you've got to believe that all the Iraqi scientists are still loyal to Saddam, even after he's gone. They are all still saying what they said before the war: there are no WMD; there haven't been any for years. It also requires forgetting what everyone said, before the war. The prowar group was certain, 110% certain, that we would find WMD after Regime Change. There was none of these excuses and evasions.
< It is apparent you know nothing about statistics.>
If the light bulb lasted 8000 or 12000 hours, that wouldn't be false advertising. But 1000 hours is way outside the limits of acceptable deviation from promised performance. And the Bush Administration made a series of very specific claims, and have zero evidence to back up any of it. They weren't just a little wrong. It was a Big Lie. |
