# Re: Der Trihs in the GWB 9/11 thread

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**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [August 3, 2011, 8:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-der-trihs-in-the-gwb-9-11-thread/591370 "2011-08-03T20:47:13Z")\
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**Author:** ![Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ed655f/32.png) [@Crown\_Prince\_of\_Irony](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Crown_Prince_of_Irony)\
**Post date:** [August 3, 2011, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/re-der-trihs-in-the-gwb-9-11-thread/591370/4 "2011-08-03T21:18:33Z")

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> [@Drunky\_Smurf](#):
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> Early in my posting career in some thread where he was going off on chrsitians claiming all kinds of things I asked for a cite three times in the same thread and he ignored me each time. So I doubt he is going to change and actually try to back up why he thinks the way he does.

What’s ironic is that in the referenced thread, he did say this:

> [@George W Bush Was Only Thinking Of The Children On The Morning Of 9/11.](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/george-w-bush-was-only-thinking-of-the-children-on-the-morning-of-9-11/590696/63):
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> Go look up the _Project for a New American Century_; Iraq was a target before Bush got into office. He was just the guy amoral and stupid enough to do what they wanted. And for that matter, Cheney’s Energy Task Force during California’s Enron-manufactured “energy crisis” spent much of its time studying maps of Iraq. They _always_ intended to attack Iraq, 9-11 was just the excuse they were looking for, the “new Pearl Harbor” they wanted.

This is the most sensible, rational post I’ve ever seen from **Der Trihs**. And it might have laid decent groundwork for an argument that Bush would have invaded Iraq regardless. Had **DT** included a [link](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_for_a_New_American_Century), that is, instead of “go look it up”. And had he actually followed this up with further reasoned debate, instead of his next post, which was:

> [@Der Trihs](#):
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> > [@me](#):
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> > To say that a “major goal of Bush. . . was to kill random brown Muslims for the sake of killing them” shows that you have a severely broken capacity for empathy of any sort.
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> No, it’s simply observing how Americans, especially right wing Americans act _all the time_.

So - reasoned debate. . . not so much.

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