Re: An oasis on the moon?

howard_at_brazee.net
Date: 03/01/05 

Date: Tue, 01 Mar 2005 02:14:21 GMT

On 28-Feb-2005, "Ool" <ulrich.schreglmann@t-online.de> wrote:

> About WMDs, the only thing I have to criticize is the fact that they
> made it sound as if they were convinced that they'd find them. That
> showed us just what kind of personality type they are--one that
> doesn't keep their options open. One that makes up their minds once
> and then confuses their convictions with reality.

And once they were convinced, they found it very easy to believe stuff such
as Saddam's phantom purchase of uranium from Africa - even after they found
out that the evidence was false.

True Believers can be dangerous.

That said - Bush's decisions took guts. While he hasn't stood up to a
nuclear power the way Kennedy, he also didn't back away from supporting
soldiers who were fighting as his proxies as in the Bay of Pigs.

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