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To: DuckTapeSunroof who wrote (4106)	11/2/2006 7:46:20 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 10087

Irrelevant doesn't mean unimportant. Sometimes the irrelevant fact is more important in the larger scheme than then most or all facts relevant to the issue at hand. If we were discussing how many posts I made yesterday, and you informed me that a nuclear missile was about to hit my area, that fact would be irrelevant to the discussion. Of course the fact would be so much more important that the discussion itself would become pointless (and presumably soon at an end). Iran having ties to the Iraqi government, may be relevant to a lot of issues involving Iraq. It might be a very important issue. It might be an interesting issue to talk about. But it doesn't change the fact that the US and the Iraqi government are indeed allied with each other at this time. (ESPECIALLY since it has been so well documented by US and British military and intelligence services... not to mention the plain evidence of our own eyes, and the statements of the Iraqis and the Iranians themselves....) That argument is a good example of this logical fallacy en.wikipedia.org In an attempt to try and prove relevance you bring up an argument for your contention being true. But being true doesn't make something relevant. Its true my car is silver but that isn't very relevant to the price of tea in China.