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Re: Help me with the math
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lugnet.off-topic.debate
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Wed, 8 Sep 2004 15:24:29 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.debate, Dave Schuler wrote:
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I agree that soldiers put themselves in harm’s way, but one would hope that
they wouldn’t be pointlessly put at risk as they have been in this case.
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You don’t really believe that it was pointless. Do you? Bush had reasons for
doing what he did. You (and I!) just disagree with the felicity of his reasons.
You have, in the past, given room for either evil or incompetence as the
explanation of his motives. But I really don’t think there’s any evidence for
the incompetence hypothesis. His team knows exactly what’s going on.
Chris
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Message has 1 Reply:
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| (...) Really? They knew in advance that these fanatics and insurgents would be emboldened? I think you have to be pretty machavellian to see how that would actually be of any benefit to anyone, enough that you would deliberately plot for that (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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| (...) Well, that's the point, isn't it? Bush deliberately initiated an unjustified war, and now 1,000+ US soldiers are dead, along with ~12,000 innocent Iraqis. I agree that soldiers put themselves in harm's way, but one would hope that they (...) (20 years ago, 8-Sep-04, to lugnet.off-topic.debate, FTX)
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