Libby Lied To A Grand Jury. That Proves Bush Lied About WMDs
Well, that’s the latest wisdom spouted by the Left and those in the Valley. I’m not at all sure how people as logical as software engineers can make this leap but they do so with ease. Lewis Libby, the Vice-President’s chief-of-staff, is charged with lying to a grand jury during the investigation into who leaked the name of a CIA agent. Did he leak the name? I don’t know and if anyone says he did ask them how they know because the indictment was for lying and obstruction not leaking the name of a covert CIA agent.
Does this prove Bush lied about WMDs? Hardly. It may prove that the Bush administration was trying to discredit someone who was trying to discredit them. Which is a standard part of politics. I guess the left will say that it shows a pattern of lying within the administration. Ask them if their child has ever lied and if that proves that they are liars. The argument I got was that this was the last link in a chain of lies. Yes, if the last step in a process is flawed, the whole process is flawed. An extreme view but, hey, I don’t expect anything less anymore?
I’m not very good at debating this stuff in a conversational situations. My logic doesn’t keep up with the emotional arguments. Although I would assume that people think they are making a logic argument, saying that Bush lied because Libby lied fails that test with me.
In the course of a discussion with a person, we got into the whole WMD argument. Since we know that they were in Iraq I asked where they were. The person had an interesting observation that they may have all deteriorated. A very good point. I didn’t bother pressing, but this logic ignores the fact that Iraq had the capability to make WMD and assumes that they wouldn’t want to do so again. This person then went on to say that the U.S. has a history of overestimating enemy strengths. And started talking about how we over-hyped Sovietmilitary capabilities and when we investigated we found old, worn-out equipment nothing like we were led to believe. Hey, I don’t know anything about this subject, but I’m skeptical. I mean if they had no nuclear weapons then I’d say we overestimated them. Otherwise, I’d rather overestimate an enemies capabilities than underestimate it. The scarier thing is I couldn’t honesty say that this person considered the USSR an enemy during the Cold War. I got the impression this person believed that we over-hyped their military just so we could continue to have an enemy. To what ends? I’m not sure. I guess the evil Right-wing needs to demonize someone to remain in power.
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January 12th, 2006 at 1:28 am
The US has WMDs. It also has the capability to make more.