Hey, folks. OP here. This thread isn’t a Bush debate. There are plenty of those over in GD. This is a non-partisan discussion about calling intelligent people “stupid” because they disagree with you. Interestingly, it seems like the anti-Bush people are all jumping in to say “Bush is stupid.”
Yes. But I don’t see folks like panache45 jumping in and saying, “Sorry, it was hyperbole. I really don’t think Bush is stupid.” Instead, he just lists a bunch of arguments for why he thinks Bush is stupid, while Brutus jumps in to show that there are two sides to all of the points.
You obviously know hyperbole when you see it (or use it), blowero, but it appears a bunch of people here don’t. They just feel that anyone who disagrees with them is stupid.
No, I honestly do believe that Bush is stupid. No hyperbole whatsoever.
And the **wrong **way to change my mind is to mention the things you don’t like about Kerry. I have many disagreements with Kerry’s politics, but I’d never call him stupid.
Whatever became of that story? I remember reading it, and then couldn’t find any follow-up stories. If it was verified, I’d have expected to see it as the lead story on every network (except CBS, of course), and on the front page of most of the newspapers.
Well, the cited story itself makes it pretty clear that everyone involved, including the U.S. government, regarded this as a leftover, isolated shell from the early 1990s, and not as an indication that there was a stockpile of these suckers lying around anywhere. In fact, even Rumsfeld cautioned that the determination that it had sarin in it was not a reliable finding.
So, what do we have? One stray old shell that might just possibly have had traces of a nerve agent in it. Another non-story, another straw to be grasped at.
Suggestion: If you intend to have a non-partison discussion, don’t throw in partisan statements like “Bush acted on bad information from the ‘intelligence’ community”. The implication there is that Bush was simply misled, which is most definitely a partisan view.
