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Originally Posted by ratbastid
What's funny is, he thinks he can get away with accusing somebody else of rewriting history. Mr Shifting Justification for War thinks he can pin that on somebody else. It's just amazing.
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I take it you haven't seen this video . While I agree with you that Bush has repeatedly changed his justification for the invasion of Iraq, Bush is totally right when he says that his critics are attempting to rewrite history. Your method of argument is called "ad hominem tu quoque", which is another way of saying that hypocritical statements are less true than non-hypocritical ones, which obviously is false.
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