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Originally Posted by losthellhound
I dont know why we even allow threads like this. Even the title is nothing more then flamebait
This thread, your article, is nothing more then an attept to polarize the board once again into partisan bickering. Don't we have enough threads with the implied title "democrats and replublicans fight here"?
Might I suggest that they can be neither hypocrites NOR idiots?
A senator can approach the facts presented and say yes.. If those facts are true, then we must act. A senator should not have to second guess the govenment and have those facts proved. (And I dont care what the rest of the world thought, and neither did the senators, they wanted proof from thier govenment). Once the facts were proved false, and the methods for getting those facts were questioned, it is a senator's job to question the actions after those facts.
Therefore they are not hypocrites, nor idiots.. They are serving thier people, and thier country
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No, this thread is not flamebait, nor is it intended as such.
The dichotomy is clear: either Bush intentionally lied or he didn't.
Possibility 1: If Bush didn't know that the intelligence was false, then the Democrats are hypocritically faulting Bush for being misled for intelligence that also misled (at the very least) the vast majority of Senate Democrats, not to mention France, Germany, and the United Nations. It wouldn't make any sense to hold the President accountable in this situation because EVERYONE was misled.
Possibility 2: The President did know the intelligence was false. He intentionally misled the Senate into believing that Saddam had WMD's even though Bush knew that there were no WMD's. If this is the case, the Democrats, along with every employee of the intelligence agencies in a half dozen countries, are idiots because they were duped by Bush into believing that their intelligence showed something that it did not. Are we really willing to allege that Bush fabricated the NSA intelligence, the CIA intelligence, the French intelligence, the German intelligence, etc. etc?
It is obvious at this juncture that Bush didn't know that the intelligence was flawed. There simply is no conceivable was in which he could have fooled all those agencies. For this reason, one must conclude that Bush didn't know,
couldn't have known, that the intelligence was flawed. Thus, the Democrats' recent complaints about being misled by the intelligence cannot in any way be used to fault Bush, who clearly was equally misled.