[IRAQ] RE: Name Calling vs. Ad Hominem

From: Emlyn O'regan (oregan.emlyn@healthsolve.com.au)
Date: Wed May 07 2003 - 23:26:02 MDT

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    Just to open up a can of worms... how do people now feel about the war,
    given that the reason for going to war in the first place has turned out to
    be bunk (well, lies actually, I guess). If we could wind back time to before
    it happened, would you have still supported/opposed it?

    Emlyn

    > John K Clark wrote:
    > > "Hal Finney" <hal@finney.org>
    > >
    > >>When we go back and see that John was wrong (so far) on such a
    > >>high-stakes issue, [WMD] it makes him look extremely unreasonable
    > >>to have called Samantha an idiot.
    > >
    > > Actually when I called Samantha that a year ago it had
    > nothing to do with
    > > Weapons Of Mass Destruction or even Iraq, it had to do with
    > Afghanistan and
    > > Osama bin Laden. However I will concede that if WMD are not
    > found in Iraq
    > > mighty damn soon then it's me that will look like an idiot;
    > I swallowed the
    > > line that there was virtually no doubt they existed hook
    > line and sinker. As
    > > each day passes and nothing is found it looks more and more
    > like I was dead
    > > wrong.
    > >
    > > John K Clark jonkc@att.net
    >
    > Ja me too. It might be years before those weapons
    > are found, if ever, and when they are, they might
    > be found in New York City.
    >
    > Oh well, Im ok with being an idiot in this case.
    >
    > {8-] spike



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