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To: Nadine Carroll who wrote (228603)	4/25/2007 9:47:13 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Nadine can you read? I'm beginning to wonder. What I said was- now pay careful attention to these words: IF you go to a DOCTOR, and he has been bribed by the pharma industry to use a drug, but it's the right drug for you, and he cures you, do you care that he was bribed? I'm going to say no- I'm just glad I'm not dead. You would rather be dead? What I am saying is that correctness is important in the real world. It's really important to be right- in finding your cancers, in diagnosing your heart attack quickly, and in not exaggerating threats so we get in to stupid wars. Is there an issue about corruption with bribes? Sure. A smaller issue. The not being dead thing is the big issue. So being right is better than hugging the small details (assuming the "ways" problems are small details- if they are constitutionally problematic- like torture, for example, they become serious- but what you are cavilling about is not serious)- in the real world- to people who would like to be right. You would rather be dead and dead wrong. It's not like there were no issues with Bush's bad information. There were all kinds of issues about where it came from, and the interests of those involved. The option for most people who live in real time is to try not to be failures. You clearly want to defend failure. Obviously with your politics you are boxed in to the failure corner on this one, which puts you in the unenviable position of defending serious mistakes. I'm glad I don't have to do that. I don't know why you continue to post this clap trap. Do you imagine your championing of failure is going to resonate with people? It's one of your lamer ideas.