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Originally Posted by Captain America  Y'know. You do make a good point. My last girlfriend called me a liar just because I didn't tell her I spent the weekend with my ex. I never said a word. So how could I have lied?
Let's compromise. Bush, et al, intentionally and carefully cherry picked and manipulated the intelligence, and the lack of intelligence, to hoodwink everyone into believing that we needed to go to war with Iraq.
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I dont know about other folks, but my parents raised me with higher standards of truthfulness than have been applied to the Bush Admin.
Liketeh bit in cincinatti where GWB says that he "concerned" about Hussein using flying, poison spraying robots to attack the US. Well, maybe he
was concerned and therefore it's not what bush backers are willing to call a lie. However, if I tried that sort of thing w/ my parents and then tried to use the clever construction of my sentences as an out ... I was raised old school w/ a strap when I was a kid. I dont think it would have been spared or that careful parsing negates 'lie' part of it.
But that just how I was raised.
Maybe some folks parents bought that sort of crap and maybe some parents these days find that sort of behavior acceptable and honest.