OT - Where is the lie? (especially for jcs)
"Gould 0738" wrote in message
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Bush stated: "The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein
recently
sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." This statement was
a
true
statement. The fact that the British government had information proved to
be
inaccurate does not make Bush's statement a lie. The statement
The fact that the Bush administration believed the information to be a lie
prior to the SOTU speech cannot be overlooked!
If you said, "I have just learned that the world is flat" and I repeat
"John
has learned that the world is flat, and we should therefore pursue the
following policies".....it is technically true that I haven't lied, only
endorsed a statement made by a third party- but a statement that I know is
not
at all accurate. No signficant moral difference between telling a lie
myself
and letting somebody else lie for me. Same standards should apply to the
president. Sorry.
Your boy Clinton was a master at this type of *double speak*.
Really, he was.
For example.
After being asked about his alleged underhanded dealings in (place
your favorite BC snafu here),
He would respond with something like this:
"There is no evidence to support that"
Meaning,
Yea, I might have done the dastardly thing but you'll never
find any proof of it.
Should the "Same Standards" apply to ALL presidents?
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