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Originally posted by Dragonlich
Boatin, what you call "lying" is quite normal in politics and business. It's called marketing. Or do you really believe that drinking Coca-Cola will make you have fun? Or that Pepsi is the choice of the "new" generation? I know, there's quite a difference between that, and marketing a war; but in essence, it's the same. You focus on the things that agree with your goal, and ignore or marginalize the things that do not.
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Wow. I appreciate you're acknowledging that wars are different than soda. But I don't think that goes nearly far enough.
Bush telling his own people (and the world) that there are WMD in Iraq is not
marketing. He has spent billions of dollars, cost American lives, jeopardized relations with our oldest allies, created the possibilities of more anti-American feeling, rolled the dice on destabilizing the most unstable region in the world and has raised concerns about our imperialist designs.
That's marketing? We are going to be cleaning up and concerned with the after affects of this war for a generation.
Perhaps the cigarette companies increasing nicotine per cigarette, telling us they aren't unhealthy to smoke and selling them to school children would be a better example. There would be marketing
involved in that selling, but the underlying facts would still be a lie.
Since no one answered last time, I'll ask again: isn't it Clinton's
lie that continues to be held up as his big flaw? Maybe he was just marketing to save his presidency.
This wasn't just spin.