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Date Posted: 23:53:11 03/31/03 Mon
Author: Scott Tilde
Subject: Real Stories
In reply to: Harry Kalish 's message, "Made-Up Stories" on 15:01:36 03/31/03 Mon

Nothing wrong with nailing inaccuracies to prevent their spread. But no one can deny that Saddam was going for nuclear capabilities. I'll use PBS as a source since they're not commonly known as a conservative bastion. This Nightline report talks about Saddam's weapons capabilities through the eyes of UNSCOM and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA).

And, hell, I can do ideological generalizations too...

"conservatives tend to brand their mistakes as truth"

Sh'yeah, and liberals tend to either ignore their mistakes or rebrand them as the "greater truth" and label the criticism as irrelevant. This is big reason why liberals don't work on talk radio. That stuff just don't flush...


"what if we accomplish our objectives, yet find no WMD?"

Then we didn't look hard enough. We've effectively verified their existence already, haven't we? What are the Iraqis doing with those chemical suits and gas masks? Did we plant them there?? Did they plant them there to confuse us??? C'mon... this ain't "Coast to Coast AM".


"We will either have to plant them or use them ourselves just to justify our own rationale"

Christ, I was joking. Had I seen this line ahead of time, I wouldn't have even wasted time responding. There's the 'hate America first' types and then there's the 'hate logic' types. Can't really converse with either camp. It's like they're on Mars...

Well, since I'm already mucked in here, one more...


"in order to continue to justify this rationale, in the place of hard facts, conservatives will convey these whisper-down-the-lane, heard it somewhere, stories that have no basis in fact."

The guy makes an easily identified mistake, and you're going to brand it as part of the 'vast right-wing conspiracy'?

At least conservatives are, rightfully, held to a factual standard.

Would that liberals someday aspire to the same.

Everybody sing along now: "Feelings, whoa whoa whoa, feelings..." [fade]...


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