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Thread #98924   Message #1964976
Posted By: Captain Ginger
12-Feb-07 - 12:56 PM
Thread Name: BS: Proof that Bush lied
Subject: RE: BS: Proof that Bush lied
I'm sorry Dickey, but a single quote taken in isolation from a report means, er, what exactly?
Kendall has simply posed a question. The answer, like the subject, is tricky. Lying can mean the utterance of untruths, or can mean not uttering the truth, or can mean the slective uttering of the truth to imply something that is false.
The fact is, the US administration wanted to invade Iraq before 11/9/2001 and after that date made every attempt to paint Saddam as a danger to the West and a terrorist's friend. Those claims turn out to have been false, and some people actively involved in the intelligence community knew them at the time to be false.
I fear your delivery, showmanship or whatever you'd like to call it needs a bit of a polish if you are hoping to be able to go 'Ta-da!' and expose a killer fact that reduces your opponents to gibbering wrecks.
But don't beat yourself up about it. Not even the neo-cons in the White House can do it.