Re: US Scientists Reject Govt Interference

simberg.interglobal@xxxxxxxxx (Rand Simberg) wrote:

:On 28 Dec 2006 12:19:17 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Eric Chomko"
:<pne.chomko@xxxxxxxxxxx> made the phosphor on my monitor glow in such
:a way as to indicate that:
:
:>> >It is all there and true to boot. Gerald Ford even agrees going into
:>> >Iraq was a mistake.
:>>
:>> No, he doesn't, and didn't, you idiot (not that you probably ever
:>> before cared what he thought about anything).
:>>
:>> http://www.nydailynews.com/front/story/483757p-407239c.html
:>>
:>> "Ford was a few weeks shy of his 93rd birthday as we chatted for about
:>> 45 minutes. He'd been visited by President Bush three weeks earlier
:>> and said he'd told Bush he supported the war in Iraq but that the 43rd
:>> President had erred by staking the invasion on weapons of mass
:>> destruction.
:>>
:>> 'Saddam Hussein was an evil person and there was justification to get
:>> rid of him,' he observed, 'but we shouldn't have put the basis on
:>> weapons of mass destruction. That was a bad mistake. Where does [Bush]
:>> get his advice?'"
:>>
:>> So he didn't think that it was a mistake. What he thought was a
:>> mistake was basing it solely on WMD (something that we didn't do--it
:>> was only one of many reasons given).
:>
:>You still believe that there were WMD in Iraq.
:
:I didn't say that, you idiot.

And actually there were. They've found hundreds of them, after all...

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"Ignorance is preferable to error, and he is less remote from the
truth who believes nothing than he who believes what is wrong."
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