[extropy-chat] Who thinks the Bush admin lied over Iraq? On what basis?

[Dirk Bruere]

Brett Paatsch wrote:

> I've only had time to dip into some ongoing threads but I notice that 
> both Robert Lindauer and Dan Clemmensen have
> stated that they think that "we", meaning the US, or the Bush 
> administration, (I'm not part of any of those "we") deliberately lied 
> or misrepresented the reasons for invading Iraq.
>  
> Whilst I do tend to that view, I am not utterly convinced of it yet. 
> And yet it is an important fact, or otherwise, to establish or not 
> surely? One thing that I suspect most extropian or transhumanist list 
> posters might agree on, is that the Iraq and terrorism business has 
> grabbed a big chunk of the worlds attention. Attention that might have 
> been directed far more profitably (to the net human good) elsewhere.
>  
> I wonder on what basis those that are convinced of it, are
> so convinced? Please, give only opinions based on hard facts.

Well, in that case we better exonerate Hitler for the Holocaust since 
there are no *hard facts* that show he ordered it.
Just a lot of circumstantial evidence.

-- 
Dirk

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