Re: US Scientists Reject Govt Interference


Fred J. McCall wrote:
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...

Yet the administration now admits there were none, but you KNOW
otherwise. Are thses the ones that got sent to Syria, or are those
different ones?

You quote right-wing desperate hysteria well.


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

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