A Second "Downing Street Memo"

Besides the one adorning your mid-sagittal suture?

Good one EddyTeddyFreddy.

The person who misuses and misunderstands without knowing does so out of ignorance, the one who does it knowing the purpose is to mislead is a demagog.

Hey! **december ** showed that rightists can indeed behave nice and still be bastards.

This question.

Like I said, no idea.

Actually, there is a method in left insanity.

If you start with Bush = Hitler,

it’s only fitting to proceed with GiTMO = GULag,

from which it follows that Iraqi Freedom = Watergate.

It’s like deranged maniac starts by shooting at perceived enemies,

proceeds to attack the world at large,

finishes by shooting himself in the head.

Isk, baby, would you do us a favor and skip step two?

Thank you. :wink:

I think we can agree on something: you have no idea.

Though perhaps not: you’re clever enough to play dumb when asked a specific question you no it would hurt you to answer.

no = know

Downing Street memo & Iraq war meeting on C-SPAN now

Also, the New York Review of Books has a good article in its most recent issue.

Princhester,

I still don’t understand what your question is. I can’t believe you don’t know that doing nothing in the face of evil is the worst possible thing, as attested to by Burke and Einstein.

Speaking of Einstein…

“He who joyfully marches to music rank and file, has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would surely suffice. This disgrace to civilization should be done away with at once. Heroism at command, how violently I hate all this, how despicable and ignoble war is; I would rather be torn to shreds than be a part of so base an action. It is my conviction that killing under the cloak of war is nothing but an act of murder.”

“Peace cannot be kept by force. It can only be achieved by understanding.”

“We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.”

As for Burke:

Our patience will achieve more than our force.

The wise determine from the gravity of the case; the irritable, from sensibility to oppression; the high minded, from disdain and indignation at abusive power in unworthy hands.

They defend their errors as if they were defending their inheritance.

Yes you do: if you didn’t you wouldn’t have written your second sentence.

Answer the question.

If we take the Downing memos seriously, evil had nothing to do with it:

OK, I’m still completely in the dark, but I’ll try.

It seems you are trying to insinuate that the only thing worse then not acting against great Evil (such as Saddam) is using that Evil as an excuse to produce even greater Evil (as you insist Bush has done). Is that it?

Forget what you think I’m trying to insinuate, forget what you think I insist, just answer the question.

What Is Your Question?

For the love of Og!
Just how many times do you have to read something before it sinks in?

Ta, FinnAgain.