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Originally Posted by Ustwo
I predict......
This will be the ONLY time a liberal would trust what Pat Robertson says.
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If you could set your tedious liberal bashing aside for about three seconds to consider what we have here, I think you and I might just agree on something. Observe:
1) Pat Robertson is a major Bush supporter
2) Pat Robertson claimed Bush said there would be no casualties in the war.
OK, what's wrong with this picture? As you mentioned, if Bush DID say it, he's a flaming nutjob. I'll go farther and say that anyone stupid enough to believe that a war will have no casualties is too moronic to lead a boyscout troop, much less the country. It is difficult to believe that Forrest Gump, much less President Bush, would have said such an appallingly stupid thing.
So if we say Bush didn't say it, then we must conclude that Robertson is not telling the truth about Bush.
That's where it gets really tricky, because Robertson supports Bush. Why would you drop a huge and potentially damaging lie like this on the guy you want to win the election?
That also doesn't make sense. The only logical reason for Robertson to say something like this is that he IS being honest, because if Bush didn't say it, then lying and saying he did would hurt the man he supports. But if Bush DID say it, then telling the truth would, while hurting the man he supports, serve the higher cause of seeking the truth. In other words, it's much more logical to conclude that Robertson is telling the truth than it is to conclude that Robertson is telling a lie.
where you and I might agree is that it's easy to descend into circular logic a'la the Fezzini death scene in the Princess Bride
Where you and I will disagree is that I find more indicators to point to the idea that Bush said it than I find to point to the idea that he did not say it.
After all, the man has a history of making delusional comments. Telling us that major combat operations in Iraq had ended was asinine. They hadn't, and no one who knew anything about the status of the war believed they had.
And that's just one of the many.
So if he's made delusional comments in the past, it's not all that surpising if we find out he's gone and made another.