[Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason!]

ScottW wrote:
Shhhh! I'm Listening to Reason! wrote:
ScottW wrote:

Of course there is no "conclusive" evidence...just like there wasn't
anything conclusive about NK... and some people still question if they
actually
accomplished a nuclear fueled explosion.
Hersh loves to spin things just his way with enough subjectivity using
words
like "conclusive" to manipulate those who want to hear what he has to
say.

You're being duped...and you seem to be quite happy about it.

OTOH, toopid, we went to war in Iraq without any conclusive evidence of
WMD, and you seem quite happy about that.

Perhaps you can't remember that I felt there were sufficient other
reasons to take out Saddam, not all of which were strictly for your
selfish interests.

Ever read _Lost Horizon_? Some of it seems to apply directly to you,
toopid.

"He admired the simple black-and-white of Mallinson's code; the public
school ethic might be crude, but at least it was downright."

-and-

"... Chang, you're a philosopher. I must remember that remark of yours.
'Many religions are moderately true.' You fellows up on the mountain
must be a lot of wise guys to have thought that one out. You're right,
too, I'm dead certain of it."

"But we," responded Chang, "are only *moderately* certain."

-and-

"Yet to Conway it did not appear that the Eastern races were abnormally
dilatory, but rather that Englishmen and Americans charged about the
world in a state of continual and rather preposterous fever-heat."

Fiction from 1933 pegs toopid to the wall.

LOL!

So where is that happy middle ground that keeps us a safe as possible
(as in, "What risk are we willing to accept?" since we have to assume
some), and yet does not get us mired in ill-advised military action?

I'll put more trust in the IAEA than Seymour Hersh.
Even if the UN/Euro IAEA options fail...I don't see us getting "mired"
in Iran.

Fair enough. It doesn't matter, as bushie hasn't got enough power right
now to order a shoeshine for the Iranian president.

And I do get sick of the right's always attacking the media.

as I get sick of the media attacking the right...

Your programmers must be so very proud of their work on you.

You want
to talk about fascist attempts at thought control...

Go back to the unvarnished truths of Coulter, O'Reilly, Malkin et al.
They're more your speed.

Just to clarify your varnished truth....I don't even read Coulter.

But you quote her. Hm. That doesn't seem likely.

I won't argue the point. Go back to the unvarnished truths of O'Reilly,
Malkin et al. They're more your speed. Feel better now, toopid?