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Politics : High Tolerance Plasticity -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: chowder who wrote (21060)	8/7/2004 11:51:44 AM
From: kodiak_bull	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 23153

A sworn affidavit (sworn statement) doesn't actually prove anything, it simply allows the person speaking to take control of his words and focus on them, and say exactly what he means to say, and have his saying of those words witnessed, usually by a notary public who looks at a driver's license, etc. and determines that Mr. X is Mr. X. A sworn statement by a liar is probably simply a sworn set of lies, of course, but affidavits generally serve their purpose by allowing a set of statements to be developed for some, generally legal, purpose, that is something to be used in a legal forum or for the sale of some sort of property. It was interesting that the Boston Globe reporter reported such different nuances and meanings from the affidavit writer. As we found out with the Tet Offensive, the price for trusting the 4th estate can be high: <<In the first week of the attack the NVA/VC lost 32,204 confirmed killed, and 5,803 captured. US losses were 1,015 KHA, while ARVN losses were 2,819 killed. ARVN losses were higher because the NVA/VC, reluctant to enter into a set-piece battle with US forces, attacked targets defended almost exclusively by South Vietnamese troops. Casualties among the people whom the NVA/VC claimed to be "liberating" were in excess of 7,000, with an additional 5,000 tortured and murdered by the NVA/VC in Hue and elsewhere. In Hue alone, allied forces discovered over 2,800 burial sites containing the mutilated bodies of local Vietnamese teachers, doctors, and political leaders.>> 11thcavnam.com AND: << . . . the Tet offensive was a turning point in the war, and the North Vietnamese were successful in altering the course of the war far beyond the accomplishments of their army. The American people were shocked that the Vietcong/ North Vietnamese Army (VC/NV A) possessed the strength to make the widespread strikes. In the public clamor that followed, President Lyndon Johnson announced a bombing halt and withdrew from the 1968 Presidential race. The policy of Vietnamization was launched, and many Americans concluded that the war was too costly to pursue. It has always been clear that the press played a vital role in this dramatic shift of opinion. It has been evident that dissatisfaction with the war among media opinion-makers helped form an American public attitude of discouragement. Nonetheless, much of the assessment of the media's role in the war has heretofore been impressionistic and conjectural.>> airpower.maxwell.af.mil