Rumsfeld practices double think

Post #212,649 by JayMehaffey 6/26/05 2:39:32 PM Reply	Rumsfeld practices double think Rumsfeld, addressing a question about whether US troops levels are adequate to vanquish the increasingly violent resistance, said, "We're not going to win against the insurgency. The Iraqi people are going to win against the insurgency. That insurgency could go on for any number of years. Insurgencies tend to go on five, six, eight, 10, 12 years. At the same time, Rumsfeld defended Vice President Dick Cheney's description of the insurgency as being in its "last throes." Rumsfeld said the US commander in the Middle East did not contradict Cheney when he told the Senate last week that the insurgency was as strong as it was six months ago. "If you look up 'last throes,' it can mean a violent last throe," Rumsfeld said on ABC's This Week. Ouch, strained my brain just reading that one. Jay
Post #212,673 by Ashton 6/27/05 2:06:12 AM Reply	With language murder, it's hard to assign 'degrees'. I used to wonder if any of these conned-men ever viewed videos of their presentations. Then I concluded that it wasn't important if they could not understand themselves-on-Tee-Vee: the Faithful know that Jesus is planning the whole schmeer. Now.. I don't even wonder.
Post #212,678 by Simon_Jester 6/27/05 8:26:29 AM Reply	Next we'll be wondering what the meaning of "IS" is....
Post #213,273 by GBert 7/1/05 10:09:37 AM Reply	In a world-view dominated by "faith alone"... Once you get your constituency to buy into you with their "faith alone" meme, suddenly carrying on in spite of contrary "evidence" and "reason" becomes a positive selling point instead of a liability. A not-completely-unrelated thought: I'd like to see [link\|http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0060665/\|"A Man for all Seasons"] again... The [link\|http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Man_for_All_Seasons\|Wikipedia entry] had just the passage I was looking for... More: There is no law against that. Roper: There is! God's law! More: Then God can arrest him. Roper: Sophistication upon sophistication. More: No, sheer simplicity. The law, Roper, the law. I know what's legal not what's right. And I'll stick to what's legal. Roper: Then you set man's law above God's! More: No, far below; but let me draw your attention to a fact - I'm not God. The currents and eddies of right and wrong, which you find such plain sailing, I can't navigate. I'm no voyager. But in the thickets of the law, oh, there I'm a forrester. I doubt if there's a man alive who could follow me there, thank God.... Alice: While you talk, he's gone! More: And go he should, if he was the Devil himself, until he broke the law! Roper: So now you'd give the Devil benefit of law! More: Yes. What would you do? Cut a great road through the law to get after the Devil? Roper: I'd cut down every law in England to do that! More: Oh? And when the last law was down, and the Devil turned round on you - where would you hide, Roper, the laws all being flat? This country's planted thick with laws from coast to coast - man's laws, not God's - and if you cut them down - and you're just the man to do it - d'you really think you could stand upright in the winds that would blow then? Yes, I'd give the Devil benefit of law, for my own safety's sake. Have whatever values you have. That's what America is for. You don't need George Bush for that.
Post #213,513 by Ashton 7/5/05 12:19:14 AM Reply	One less-demanding re the cerebral capacity of a tick - crafted by Mark Twain, who must surely have comprehended better than any Murican of any time (or even de Tocqueville), the %ticks in the vox populi: [link\|http://www.lnstar.com/mall/literature/warpray.htm\| The War Prayer] (I figure that, anyone who can't get That, probably uses Doze without a firewall, too - and so, won't even be able to get the link. To find out they don't Get it.) Oh well, conundrums R'US

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