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Politics : Don't Blame Me, I Voted For Kerry -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dan B. who wrote (69116)	10/29/2005 2:29:33 PM
From: Orcastraiter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 81568

What is at the crux of a lie? It is the need for deception. Take the 16 words of the SOTU address. Bush could not get his own intelligence to back up the assertion of those words, and in fact our intelligence told him that it could not be confirmed. So Bush went around them, and then chose these 16 words very carefully, using the British intelligence in a sideways manner and the words sought in stead of "tried to obtain". Thus murking up the fact that our intelligence said this was probably not true. This is clearly in an effort to deceive. Did he technically lie? In my definition of the word the answer is yes. In your world this is not a lie, because he did not know that what he said was not true, though what he said went against the best minds in our own intelligence agency. So clearly he went beyond our own expert opinion, for the purposes of making a point to the American people. One that Condi summed up with her "mushroom cloud" references. But add it up...all elements that made up Bush's case for war were not true. WMD...none found. Yellow Cake from Niger...none delivered. Mobile weapons labs...none. Unmanned Drones...none. Anodized aluminum tubes for centrifuges...they were too small and the anodizing would have had to be milled off too. Immediate threat...over stated. Result....mass deception of the American people. But of course none of it was a lie. ;^) Orca