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To: tejek who wrote (290385)	7/12/2006 4:26:16 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 1582329

I'm not saying he was right, or that it was impossible that he lied. I just was pointing out that the charge that he lied was flimsy. The quoted statement was "US troops had mowed down Nazi SS troops during WWII". That statement wasn't a lie or apparently even incorrect (although the Dauchau massacre is somewhat disputed, which is why I add the "apparently") He might have been talking in the context of a discussion about Malmédy. If so than the statement was most likely incorrect but since there was apparently an actual massacre like the one he described it doesn't seem reasonable to say he was lying. If he wanted to make a statement about a massacre it would be silly to lie about one when you could just mention another real massacre and have it properly fit your argument. Even if I wasn't particularly prone to give people the benefit of the doubt to charges that they are lying, it would be reasonable to conclude that he probably wasn't lying. If there was no evidence of any American massacre of SS troops at all, then it wouldn't be quite as unreasonable to call his statement a lie, but still it wouldn't be proven that it was a lie. "Incorrect statement" does not equal "lie".

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