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Bush Lied? Uh, No.Steven Den Beste has posted a quite detailed exposition of America's rationale and position in the war on terror, including a listing of root causes, the justifications for war in Afghanistan and Iraq, and some notes on the long-term direction we're going in. His conclusion: Bush can't reasonably be said to have lied; the statement in question from the SOTU is pretty far down on the list of relevant justifications for the war; and the Democrats are just marginalizing themselves by harping on what everyone knows is a really minor nit, to the point of calling for impeachment.
I would have just said, "No, Hesiod, you delusional partisan jerk, President Bush didn't lie." But that's just me.
Posted by Jeff at July 21, 2003 08:33 AM | Link CosmosNo, Jeff, you would NEVER have "just said" that one sentence. We all know that Verbose is your middle name. :)
Posted by: Mark Lindsay on July 21, 2003 10:16 AMI thought Verbose was Steven Den Beste's and Bill Whittle's middle name.
Posted by: Wince and Nod on July 21, 2003 01:29 PMNo, Verbose and Well-written are their middle names. Mine's apparently just Verbose. :-)
Confound it, Jeff, get the scansion right! Heed the example of Dan Aykroyd, the Master: "Hesiod, you ignorant slut," full stop, then eviscerate to taste.
Posted by: Francis W. Porretto on July 21, 2003 04:44 PMI hereby swear, that any post I make fisking Hesiod, Atrios, et al - oh, let's take it offline and include Maureen Dowd, Molly Ivins and Noam Chomsky - will begin by calling them ignorant sluts, in honor of Dan Akroyd.
Posted by: Jeff on July 21, 2003 05:00 PMThat was Chevy Chase, not Dan Akroyd.
Posted by: Jim on July 22, 2003 08:48 AMDan's last name is spelled Aykroyd, folks. The letter Y occurs twice -- once after the A, and again before the D.
Posted by: Pat on July 22, 2003 12:04 PMNo, it was defnitely Dan Aykyryoyd.
Posted by: MGCC on July 22, 2003 12:56 PMUh, Yes he did.
No he didn't,
Yes!
No!
Did!
Didn't!
Did!
Didn't matter!
Did too!
This isn't an argument, it is just silly.
Posted by: Monty on July 24, 2003 10:40 PM