Vermont Votes to Impeach Bush/Cheney

Weapons of mass destruction. The U.N.inspectors told him there weren't any.

You'd like him to have been lying,

but the fact is that he simply believed something different from you.

You disagree with me?

Give one example of a lie President Bush told about the war in Iraq. Just one. You don't have to prove it's a lie, just make an argument that it's likely to have been a lie.

I submit that he told the truth as he understood it.

Indeed the opinions that he expressed to justify the invasion were held by millions and millions of people.

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Brandon9000 wrote:

I submit that he told the truth as he understood it.

I understand that this is your belief, and you state it with a lot of certainty. I therefore ask you to give one example of a statement President Bush made about the war in Iraq that he actually believed in. Just one. Give me a Bush statement, and prove that he actually believed in what he said.

Brandon9000 wrote:

Indeed the opinions that he expressed to justify the invasion were held by millions and millions of people.

And millions and millions of people relied on what they were told by the administration. If I were you, I really wouldn't use this point if you want to show that President Bush Has Always Been Telling The Truth.

See, millions and millions of people apparently believe that Bush was behind 9/11. Do you think that's the truth, just because so many people believe it?

I didn't ask you for proof. I asked you for a plausibility argument. Intent is usually impossible to prove, which is why I didn't ask you to prove it.

The statement by president Bush which I will give as an example is that there are probably WMD and development programs in Iraq.

My plausibility argument that Mr. Bush believed it to be true is as follows:

1. He said it consistently from day one to the invasion

2. Hussein had had these things at one time, had been caught lying to conceal them, had been caught obstructing inspectors, and could have furnished very convincing evidence that these things were dismantled (e.g. video of their destruction) yet mysteriously chose not to.

These facts make it perfectly plausible that the president believed what he was saying, and, indeed, I believed this very same thing long before Mr. Bush came along. Now, you furnish one single example of something you believe to have been a lie and make the same sort of argument that there is reason to suspect that it was a lie.

Sorry anton, we don't answer to the U.N., and never will. Nor do we answer to Vermont. What a bunch of looney pricks. They just lost any tourist dollar I might spend there.