He most certainly does think about what he's saying.

Post #98,618 by marlowe 4/24/03 7:32:42 PM Reply	He most certainly does think about what he's saying. Just not from the angle of "gee, how are they gonna react to this?" ---------------------------------------------------------------- Victory was the answer - to a great many problems. When the facts speak for themselves, only a fool insists on having a debate. The future is leaving the station, the US is at the throttle, and the Left isn't on board. [link\|http://www.angelfire.com/ca3/marlowe/index.html\|http://www.angelfire...arlowe/index.html]
Post #98,624 by jake123 4/24/03 8:12:24 PM Reply	So, you agree Iraq is not to get a democratic government. --\n-------------------------------------------------------------------\n* Jack Troughton jake at consultron.ca \n [link\|http://consultron.ca\|http://consultron.ca] [link\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca\|irc://irc.ecomstation.ca] \n Kingston Ontario Canada [link\|news://news.consultron.ca\|news://news.consultron.ca] *\n-------------------------------------------------------------------
Post #98,717 by jb4 4/25/03 10:37:45 AM Reply	Was there EVER any doubt? "Middle-eastern Democracy" is to oxymorons in the 2000's what "Marketing Genius" was in the '90s. jb4 "Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot-proof programs, and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning." Rich Cook
Post #98,665 by Ashton 4/25/03 2:43:58 AM Reply	Why of course, dear boy - WTF does what They 'want' have to do with any operation of Nation Building by the Masters of Bizness?! Why those uppity ragheads must have fallen for the bait {guffaw} - why.. why they musta Believed.. [!] {snort} We were doin it to free them poor sufferin Iraqi Peepul from that Evil Sinful ex-Murican-ally who went baad. So suddenly and all, and after all our Help, too! (Do people that dumb deserve self-government like ours? Why that would mean: their New Leader would have to be elected by <25% of eligible new Murican-style part-time voters. Any larger turnout would be Different, thus un-Murican - ergo clearly subversive. We'd best supervise Reeel Closely. Til about 2013, say.) Cute of you to make so clear where their 'reaction' belongs, in any Scheme of things. Not that this is any surprise, mind you.
Post #98,684 by cwbrenn 4/25/03 8:17:46 AM Reply	No, he doesn't. There are plenty of ways to say "we're going to make sure that they don't set up a totalitarian regime based on extremist Islam" without appearing to contradict their promise of "free, democratic elections." I mean, even a token effort at sincerity would be better than getting up there and spouting the first impulse that comes to mind. "We are all born originals -- why is it so many of us die copies?" - Edward Young
Post #99,649 by mhuber 5/1/03 11:50:20 AM Reply	What other angle has any meaning at all? Communication is about eliciting a desired response. If you aren't thinking about that response when you are composing your output, you are babbling. When one of the options is "by shooting at our troops" and another is "by cooperating in pursuit of our objectives that cannot be atained without their cooperation" the question "gee, how are they gonna react to this?" is not some silly PC thing. You don't refrain from saying what needs to be said, you don't lie, but you speak with great care and precision. When you are a professional communicator in a position like that, for every single on-the-record word you utter, you have a duty to think. You owe it to your country in the same sense that a soldier owes his obedience to lawful orders. And for the same reason - lives and the future of your country (or, in this case, the country we are either liberating or consigning to yet another bloody dictator) are on the line. ---- Whatever

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