To: Don Earl who wrote (8561 ) 10/16/2004 3:58:21 PM From: sea_urchin Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 20039 Don > you know the Texas CEO is lying every time he starts a statement with "I believe". Likewise a politician. So these guys can tell any lie they wish so long as it has the "I believe", or similar, disclaimer. Incredible. > The real problem in America today is while there is an abundance of law, there is very little justice Anyway, the law doesn't apply to Anglo-American politicians. At the very worst, if their backs are to the wall and they cannot wriggle out any other way, they make use of the latest "escape device" -- the apology. This "device" reinstates them in the eyes of the public, purges all sins from their soul, rejuvenates them for another round of lie-telling -- and justifies what they did. A truly brilliant idea.english.pravda.ru >>Anglo-Saxon Alliance invent new precept as counter-weight to international law A new precept has taken shape in the international community, that of the Anglo-Saxon Alliance using the public apology as an excuse for its wrong-doings and inventing the logic-defying notion that although they were wrong, they were right. Messrs Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell and Blair, how do you plead to the charge that you attacked Iraq illegally, outside the auspices of the UNO, and without any casus belli? Sorry! Messrs Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell and Blair, how do you plead to the charge that you are responsible for the murder of thousands of innocent civilians in the said attack? Sorry! Messrs Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell and Blair, how do you plead to the charge that you are responsible for the wounding and occasioning of grievous bodily harm either with intent or through criminal negligence, to tens of thousands of innocent civilians? Sorry! Messrs Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell and Blair, how do you plead to the charge that you purposefully targeted civilian structures in Iraq with military hardware? Sorry! Messrs Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Powell and Blair, how do you plead to the charge that you based your actions on a tissue of lies from beginning to end, that you knew fully well what you were doing, that you jumped the gun because you had wrongly started a military build-up on Iraq's borders based upon false assumptions and did not have the decency to admit that you were wrong? Sorry!<<