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Originally posted by Azred:
[QB]All national leaders lie; this is simply part of life with politics.
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i'll repeat what i said to djinn last night: does that make it right? cant the world's most powerful nation ever leave behind a legacy that's better than that?
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Originally posted by Azred:
[QB]A majority of the American people are so woefully uninformed, though, that they wouldn't know the truth if it hit them in the face.
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oh, i'm with you there. when i first left the states just for a two week holiday, i was shocked at how little i knew about the world. it was even more shocking when i talked to people about it, and discovered just what i was like before i started getting to know the world.
having said that, does an uninformed populace give leaders the right to lie to their people?
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Originally posted by Azred:
[QB]Unprovoked, most likely. Unnecessary, definitely not.
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even if it was necessary (and i dont agree it was), that would sanction unprovoked agression. gulf war 1 and ww2 started that way, and countless other wars that we entered to stop just such tyranny. now that we're on the other side, we've changed the standards?
hypocrisy aside, surely we should hold ourselves to higher standards of behaviour.