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Politics : Just the Facts, Ma'am: A Compendium of Liberal Fiction
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To: TimF who wrote (52722)11/1/2006 10:07:57 PM
From: Cogito  Read Replies (1) of 90947
 
>Not changing your mind can be principled. That doesn't mean changing your mind is unprincipled. Neither is inherently wrong.

If your sole reason for supporting the invasion was out of concern for existing stockpiles of Iraqi WMD or a current highly active program of WMD production than it makes sense to revise your opinion when you find out that such stockpiles and highly active production didn't exist at the time when you voted or after that time. Bush's support for the invasion most likely was not dependent on existing large stockpiles or a current highly active production program.<<

Tim -

Of course. You can't say that a person is principled or unprincipled simply because that person changes his or her mind. Nor did I say you could. I said that not changing your mind when new information that demonstrates your view is wrong has presented itself can't be defended as being principled.

>>Bush's support for the invasion most likely was not dependent on existing large stockpiles or a current highly active production program.<<

I think it's clear that Bush didn't support the invasion because he really believed the were large stockpiles of WMD. It seems he must have had other reasons. But the WMDs, and the threat they supposedly represented to the U.S. were the major reason he and all his henchmen presented to the American people for supporting the invasion. They were the lynchpin of his pro-invasion argument.

- Allen
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