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To: tejek who wrote (422280)	10/16/2008 2:33:43 PM
From: TimF	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575374

AndI am not going to take the time to argue the 4 points up above. Probably because you don't have any effective arguments. As for the other 14 points, none of them clearly amount to being a lie, and only a couple are even clearly wrong. Some of them (for example number 10) are not put forth in such a way that calling them wrong or a lie even makes sense. Others are just silly to call lies (yes I'm sure that Palin knew the name of the general was McKiernan, but had some nefarious reason for trying to convince everyone that his name was really McClellan). To look at some examples - #13, a commitment to an insurgency effort, requiring more soldiers and marines, while seeking a political solution was what the surge in Iraq was about. The only potential relevant difference is that in Iraq the additional forces where considered short term, but in Iraq the overall force levels where much higher. Leaving extra forces in Afghanistan for a longer period would just be a smaller but longer version of the surge strategy. It would of course get modified in other ways to fit local conditions but the basic point is the same. As for 15, favoring tax cuts on the national level has just about no connection with whether or not you make education a priority, considering how small of percentage of federal spending goes to education, and also considering the majority of education spending doesn't come from the federal government. Even if you think that concern for about education is all about more federal dollars to education (a rather silly idea), note that Bush cut taxes and greatly increased federal spending on education.