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To: sylvester80 who wrote (198515)	8/22/2006 12:20:38 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 281500

Maybe he is. He probably is if you are strict about it, most people, certainly most politicians are to a certain extent. OTOH if your going to claim a specific lie, or claim that he is a compulsive liar, you should be able to make an argument for the claim. I took a quick look at your link. It doesn't amount to an argument that Bush is a compulsive liar. In fact a number of the claimed lies are not lies at all. For example - Today's Bush Lie "[Castro] welcomes sex tourism," Bush told a room of law enforcement officials in Florida, according to the Los Angeles Times. "Here's how he bragged about the industry," Bush said. "This is his quote: 'Cuba has the cleanest and most educated prostitutes in the world.'" "As it turns out, Bush had lifted that quotation not from an actual Castro speech but rather from a 2001 essay written by then Dartmouth University undergraduate Charles Trumbull. In the essay, Trumbull did appear to quote a Castro speech about prostitution. Sadly, the student made the quotation up. All that makes an argument for is that Bush was wrong not that he lied. And even the argument that he was wrong is not 100% irontight.