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Originally posted by Secret_Agent_Man
While we all by now seem to have tremendously cynical views of our government and our political system, I dislike being spun and/or mislead on issues as important as war and peace. It's an important principle -- and leaves a decidedly bad taste. Our government policymaking and our political discourse should not be conducted according to an "ends justify the means" theory of life.
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But, issues like educating our kids, feeding the poor, supporting the elderly, funding the infrastructure - they can all be part of a partisan selling process, (tell me Kennedy hasn't spent his whole life spinning and selling) but you've decided that some other governmental function is just too important for that?
Respectfully disagree. One could make that sort of case out for any pet issue. Plus, as I have said earlier, I, with no more intelligence or insight than you, saw what Bush was saying pre-war, saw the same supporting info, knew about history, and, even now in the light of no WMD's being found, do not at all feel like I was lied to. Maybe if I hated Bush or Republicans I would, but that becomes a different argument.
