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Originally Posted by OpieCunningham
a lie is only a lie when it is admitted, in all other instances, a false statement is not a lie.
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I disagree with you there. I think you can be caught in a lie. For example, if I say I'm 70 years old, it's a lie even if I don't admit that it's a lie. I know I'm not 70 years old and one look at me will get YOU to know that I know I'm not 70 years old.
Now, I submit that Bush lies.
He lied about the yellowcake (we now know that he was told before that speech that the yellowcake intelligence was likely false, yet he presented it as true anyway).
He lied tonight about never having said he wasn't concerned about bin Laden. He did say that. Understand that I'm giving him the benefit of the doubt by saying that he lied, because he either lied or he's such an abjectly vacuous moron that he can't remember from day to day what he's said. Most politicians lie, but at least they aren't too stupid to remember what they've said.