Paules:
A valiant effort. Unfortunately, we’re up against nightmare zombies who can’t be turned aside with reason.
Here’s an exchange I had on another Web site:
Me: “The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, the Robb-Silverman Commission, the 9/11 Commission, the British Lord Butler and Lord Hutton Reports, former Iraq Survey Group heads David Kay and Charles Duelfer, and the Australian government all concluded Bush didn’t lie about Iraq or pressure intelligence analysts to lie. Were they all wrong?”
My antagonist: “As far as your question is. I still think Bush lied. Of course there are many levels of lies and honesty. I think all those reports you quoted me are wrong. I have no proof it’s just intuition so there is no reason to argue over how accurate my intuition is. It is what I believe.”
In other words, don’t bother me with facts; I have my intuition. I have my beliefs. I have my feeeeeeeelings.
Spoken like a true religious extremist, on the order of the people we’re fighting.
Maybe that’s why so many leftists refuse to concede that we need to fight these folks. Kindred spirits…
