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To: LindyBill who wrote (71824)	2/6/2003 12:59:40 PM
From: JohnM	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

If you are not following Foreign Affairs closely, as we here do, I suggest you read JohnM's posts. He seems to come from the same Political point that you do, and he does follow it closely. People who do follow it closely tend to believe that Powell was telling the truth. Whoa, manicheanism again. Rather than think in true/false dichotomies, why not think of arguments that are more or less persuasive. If you mean by that post that I don't think Powell knowingly manufactured evidence for that presentation, then I agree with you. I would expect that Powell considers his credibility one of his principle assets and would not knowingly undermine it. But do I think all his arguments were equally strong? No. And I suspect he did not think so either.

To: LindyBill who wrote (71824)	2/6/2003 2:18:11 PM
From: mcg404	Respond to of 281500

LOL. a couple posts questioning an argument presented by g. will and you have pigeon-holed my political views? wow! i had no idea i was being so transparent. ever read 'the money game'? great book (imo) with a interesting section about people taking the Rorschach ink blot test. made the point that it didn't matter what people saw in the ink blot - what the test was discovering about the people was their ability (willingness?) to be able to 'see' something. and so it might be with a person's 'ability' to determine if powell was telling the truth.