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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Neeka who wrote (297722)	9/18/2002 2:12:39 AM
From: Dan B.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 769667

Gee, thanks a lot. ggg Dan B

To: Neeka who wrote (297722)	9/18/2002 2:20:51 AM
From: Doug R	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 769667

Revving up the war machine on an ill-defined inkling. Going to war is NOT a sign of strength. Avoiding a war that is based on an inkling is NOT pacifism. The PR blitz would like to see US citizens take the meaning and ramifications of war too lightly. This is the utterly fallacious argument being used to support an attack on Iraq: "The president thinks it's better to do this sooner rather than later," Rice said on CNN's "Late Edition." "I don't think anyone wants to wait for the 100 percent surety that [Hussein] has a weapon of mass destruction that can reach the United States, because the only time we may be 100 percent sure is when something lands on our territory." First of all there's not even 10% surety at present. Secondly, "...when something lands on our territory." is NOT the "only time we may be 100% sure." That statement is a bald-faced lie. Thirdly, WHERE THE FRICK DOES THE IDEA THAT IRAQ IS POISED TO ATTACK THE UNITED STATES COME FROM???? huh???? HELLOOOOO!!!! THEY'RE MAKING IT UP OUT OF THIN AIR!!! and the goofy warmongers on this thread actually fall for it!! Air Force Gen. Richard B. Myers, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said on ABC's "This Week" that the U.S. consensus is that Hussein "does not have a nuclear weapon, but he wants one." ---Many countries already have one. Lots more countries want one. We should attack them all because, gee, you never know...the only way we would ever be sure they would use them against the US is if they attacked us with them. And we certainly don't want to find out that way. We should get pre-emptive on the whole lot of 'em. "We don't have all the evidence," Cheney said. "We have 10 percent, 20 percent, 30 percent. We don't know how much. ----what a moron...10, 20 or 30%...uh gee we don't really know. "None of the officials claimed to have direct proof of a connection between Iraq and Osama bin Laden's al Qaeda terrorist network." We can probably expect more of this kind of "persuasion":In the fall of 1990, members of Congress and the American public were swayed by the tearful testimony of a 15-year-old Kuwaiti girl, known only as Nayirah.In the girl's testimony before a congressional caucus, well-documented in MacArthur's book "Second Front" and elsewhere, she described how, as a volunteer in a Kuwait maternity ward, she had seen Iraqi troops storm her hospital, steal the incubators, and leave 312 babies "on the cold floor to die."Seven US Senators later referred to the story during debate; the motion for war passed by just five votes. In the weeks after Nayirah spoke, President Bush senior invoked the incident five times, saying that such "ghastly atrocities" were like "Hitler revisited."But just weeks before the US bombing campaign began in January, a few press reports began to raise questions about the validity of the incubator tale.Later, it was learned that Nayirah was in fact the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to Washington and had no connection to the Kuwait hospital.She had been coached – along with the handful of others who would "corroborate" the story – by senior executives of Hill and Knowlton in Washington, the biggest global PR firm at the time, which had a contract worth more than $10 million with the Kuwaitis to make the case for war. ______________________________________ and the shrub cabal will certainly be just as entirely unethical: The Ethics of Persuasion: Some Guidelinesby Edward L. Bernays 1. Do Not Use False Evidence 2. Do Not Use Illogical, Unsupported Reasoning 3. Do Not Falsely Represent Yourself 4. Do Not Conceal Your Purpose or Interest 5. Do Not Cover Up Consequences 6. Do Not Use Baseless Emotional Appeals 7. Do Not Oversimplify Complex Situations 8. Do Not Pretend Certainty 9. Do Not Advocate What You Don't Believe Yourself