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Dueling Network Neutrality Commentary on NPR
cube farmer writes Wednesday National Public Radio featured a commentary by telecom representative Scott Cleland in opposition to Network Neutrality legislation. Thursday Craig Newmark, the Craig behind craigslist, countered that Network Neutrality is essential for consumers. Who made the stronger case?
The problem is, there WERE WMDs and they keep finding them .... old ones, but WMD non-the-less.
... different kind of idiots.
Neo-cons reported this a couple of days ago. Neo-Libs counter that the are old. So WHAT? The simple fact is, SH wanted them, had the facilities to make them, had made them, had used them. It is silly to suggest that the absence of them "proves" anything. Absence is not proof either for or against something.
Just because we didn't find the WMDs we were looking for doesn't mean that they don't exist.
Just because we didn't find the WMDs we were looking for doesn't mean that they did exist.
The whole idea that a (D) or an (R) after some person's name makes them right (or wrong) is just goofy.
Bush is an idiot, but so is Clinton. They are just
Agent K: A *person* is smart. People are dumb, stupid, panicky animals, and you know it.
No, the problem is, those "old" WMD's are no longer functional and are not part of any active weapons program, so in reality we have still not found the causus belli for which we have spent so much in money and lives. What Santorum is doing is more accurately described as a "desperate stunt" designed to pull out of the catastrophic tailspin in which his and the rest of the Republicans' credibility and poll ratings have fallen into. No logical equivalence between this and anything the out-of-power Democrats have done is possible.
Just because we didn't find the WMDs we were looking for doesn't mean that they don't exist.
Wrong. We weren't just looking for the weapons -- we were looking for an active program of weapon creation. The case for the war didn't just rest on weapons, but on the facilities and personnel in the active process of creating them in sufficient numbers not just to threaten Iraq's neighbors, but to threaten us. Do you not remember the Bio-weapons trailers that Colin Powell shredded his last tissue of credibility against? Never did find those, did we?
No, we were distinctly told that "proof could come in the form of a mushroom cloud" and it was distinctly implied that this mushroom cloud would be arising over US cities. No such capability or plans were discovered in any of the governmental apparatus we unwound in Iraq, and two successive post-war investigators appointed by the Administration both concluded that said plans didn't exist -- exactly as Hans Blix reported before the war and twenty-five hundred US dead, thirty thousand Iraqi dead, and several hundred billion dollars gone. It's not an insignificant error we're talking about here.
I'm zeroing in on this phony equivalence of doubt because it was never confusion or error that took us to war. It was lies. Don't get yourself all confused about what happened.
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