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To: SirWalterRalegh who wrote (171804)	6/30/2006 7:30:58 PM
From: Lane3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793794

The Democrats are engaged in a war against President Bush and the security of the American people. This includes the NYT and the LAT newspapers which have repeatedly demonstrated their anti-American worldview. I can see that you are not interested in applying for the role that Euterpe laid out... <g>

To: SirWalterRalegh who wrote (171804)	6/30/2006 8:40:09 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793794

An Asymmetrical Assault on Reality David Luban Axiom 1: We are good people. Axiom 2: Our enemies are bad people. Axiom 3: Anything that helps good people beat bad people is good. Corollary 1: Whatever we do to beat our enemies is good. Corollary 2: Whatever hinders us from doing what we do to beat our enemies is bad. Theorem 1: Anything that makes us look bad is false. (Proof: If it makes us look bad, it must be false, because, according to Corollary 1, what we do to beat our enemies is good, not bad.) Corollary 3: It can't be true that the Guantanamo prisoners killed themselves because of how we treated them. (Proof: That would make us look bad. Whatever makes us look bad is false.) Surprising Corollary 4: Facts that make us look bad are false. (Proof: Follows directly from Theorem 1.) (Comment: If you thought that facts can't be false, you haven't understood that truth and falsity are moral terms: truth is what good people say, falsity is what bad people say. If bad people state facts, those facts are false.) Theorem 2: Laws that constrain us are bad. (Proof: Follows directly from Corollary 2.) But ? Axiom 4: Good people support the rule of law, and that makes the rule of law good. Corollary 4: We support the rule of law. (Proof: By Axiom 1, we're good people; and by Axiom 4, good people support the rule of law.) Surprising Theorem 3: Laws that constrain us don't exist. (Proof: By Theorem 2, a law that constrains us would be bad. But by Axiom 4, the rule of law is good. Therefore there cannot be such a thing as a law that constrains us.) Axiom 5: Anything that anyone uses against us is a weapon of our enemies. Decisive Theorem: Any international forum or legal argument that might constrain us, or anything that might make us look bad, is a weapon of our enemies. Axiom 6: We're strong and our enemies are weak. Corollary 5: Any international forum or legal argument that might constrain us, or anything that might make us look bad, is a weapon of the weak. To put it in other words, it is an act of asymmetric war against us. QED balkin.blogspot.com

To: SirWalterRalegh who wrote (171804)	7/1/2006 12:10:57 AM
From: Neeka	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793794

I couldn't agree more! Our security is the most important issue of our times. The Democrats are engaged in a war against President Bush and the security of the American people. This includes the NYT and the LAT newspapers which have repeatedly demonstrated their anti-American worldview.