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Originally Posted by shakran
If a mosquito bites me, and then I run inside and smear bacon fat and lemon juice on my face, and then I go back outside and I don't get bitten, that doesn't mean I can start a new bacon fat/lemon juice cream product line, claiming it repels the mosquitos while hiding the fact that the mosquitos actually went away while I was inside.
In other words correlation does not equal causation. That's a basic truth.
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Your analogy, while colourful, is still not a good comparison. While I am not saying his policies ARE preventing attacks, 100%, YOU in turn cannot say that they are NOT preventing attacks, because you are not a member of congress or the Deputy director of the FBI or the President himself. NONE OF US KNOW is my point.
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Originally Posted by shakran
Now you're asking us to set a very dangerous and idiotic policy. If we can't prove for a FACT that someone isn't going to hurt us, we have to destroy them. Well, OK. I can't prove for a FACT that you or Ustwo or Halx or anyone else on here isn't going to try to hurt me at some point in the murky future. Perhaps I should kill you all? It does mesh with your logic, after all.
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I think you completely misunderstood what I was saying. There we no WMD that were found, but Bush was responding to intel that he was given by other people in other contries, informants if you will.
True, you can sit there and say that you donot know that me or Ustwo or Halx are not out to get you...but if you were told my say 3 or 4 of your friends that you trusted, that I was stockpiling a couple of handgrenades and were planning of attacking you, wouldn't you want to come check me out? OK, so you found I didn't have any, should we now crucify you and call you a bad person because of it?