--- Doug Pensinger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > > But, look, why is it so hard to believe that > people > > can do things for more than one reason? > > Not hard at all, if that was what happened, but this > war was prosecuted by > scaring the American People with images of mushroom > clouds, not by telling > them it was imperative we take over the Iraqi oil > fields. > > -- > Doug
Somehow, Doug, I'm thinking that those aren't the only two possibilities you can imagine. I recall a speech by a fairly prominent member of the Administration about Saddam Hussein using rape, torture, and mass murder as routine instruments of his rule. I think it was the _President_, in front of Congress. CLearly this wasn't about taking over oil fields. That's just the empty cant of ideologically and morally bereft leftist extremists. Equally clearly, humanitarian concerns were _very important_ to several people in the Administration - most strikingly, Paul Wolfowitz. But any argument conducted from your premises - that the Bush Administration is EEVVIILL, EEVVVVILLL I say, is one that can't be resolved, because any discussion of politics is, by its nature, uncertain. If you default with certainty to one particular set of beliefs about their motivations and actions (the one that somehow makes the people who disagree with you look as malign as possible), you're welcome to that belief, but don't expect me to take it seriously. Gautam Mukunda [EMAIL PROTECTED] "Freedom is not free" http://www.mukunda.blogspot.com __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
