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jayzee12/30/2009 12:35:53 pm PST

re: #466 Cineaste

yes, but presenting a tu quoque is on the side. I’m looking at the specifics of this situation. It is worth noting that the issues that Hillary was addressing (and much of Moore’s film) were related to the preamble to Iraq which, ostensibly, had nothing to do with any terrorist attack on us (remember, it was about WMD originally). She was claiming that Bush lied and, we have since learned, that if that is hyperbole, the Bush administration was at the least being willfully deceptive about the yellow cake and numerous other aspects of their intelligence. We basically went to war because of the gossip from one man named Chalabi who wanted to make some cash.

You are wrong about Hillary. She said what she in regards to 9/11. Same with Moore’s criticism of Bush regarding his response to hearing the attacks while reading to the children (you remember that scene from his movie?).

We can argue Iraq another time if you like, but it is not pertinent to the argument at hand. My original statement was a condemnation of political rhetoric in general. It was not meant as a tu quoque. I condemn the rhetoric on the right, as I did the rhetoric on the left. I wish those on the left could do the same. I find the criticisms (that you referenced above) from the right a being very hypocritical as I do the shock and dismay of the left when hearing them. Political discourse in the country gets lower every year, with the party out of power (which ever party it be), bringing it lower every election cycle.