Just listen to his answer. What was the real reason to attack Iraq? Terrorists, Taliban, Afghanastan, 9/11. And "I thought Iraq was a threat." Which had nothing to do with 9/11 terrorists, the Taliban, or Afghanastan, but it was important to mention it anyway.
I think if you look at what he said, and take into account that not all of what he is thinking makes its way out of his mouth, I think that his answer can more accurately be characterized by this:
You know, people are constantly calling me a warmonger, pointing to the fact that I ordered the invasions of both Afghanistan and Iraq. But Afghanistan was a clear threat to American security, and I also saw a threat in Iraq
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You can find one thing untrue in this?
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right?
Okay, let's go through this mathetically:
"You can't find one thing not untrue in this?"=
"There is no x such that (you can find x) and (x is not untrue)?"=
"For all x, (you can't find x) or (x is untrue)?"=
"For all x, (you can find x) implies (x is untrue)?"=
"Everything you find is untrue?"
Remember that "for all x, not y" is the same as "not (for some x, y)", not "not (for all x, y)".
Actually what does it matter if she was "disrespectful" or not? A journalist's job is not to be respectful but to find out information, to reveal information, to investigate, to ask questions they think need answering.
She lied, which kinda goes against the "reeveal information" part. Why is it that people are constantly claiming that Bush lied, but giving people a free pass when they lie
about Bush?
Well, in this day and age "disrespectful" means that you dare to challenge lies, apparently.
Well, that's a rather ironic thing to say, seeing as how she is the one whose lie is being challenged.
The pogrom run by the conservative flacks has a stunning similarity to columns and writings seen at other times in history.
Well, I guess that's one of the most subtle invocations of Godwin's Law I've seen.
On an almost entirely unrelated point, my jaw always tightens a bit whenever I hear (or read) Mr. Bush say "September the 11th" with that "the" in there. Don't know why it bothers me so, but gosh, I feel a bit better venting!
My pet peeve is "Nine one one". The first time I heard it in reference to 9/11, it took me a few seconds to realize what they were talking about. What's next, are people going to start saying "eight and a half by one one" instead of "eight and a half by eleven"?
