“It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into”

Jonathan Swift
___________________________________________________
"The Democrats have moved to the right, and the right has moved into a mental hospital." - Bill Maher
___________________________________________________
"The city is crowded my friends are away and I'm on my own
It's too hot to handle so I gotta get up and go

It's a cruel ... cruel summer"

Thursday, November 18, 2004

Dear Mr. Radio Preacher Part Deux

Thank you for responding.

We agree with you about "Deliberate Deception" as being the basis for a lie. See! Fellow Christians can agree on some things!

Now by your own definition, let's have a lookee at just a couple of Bush's lies and claims of a "Looming threat" as you put it from Iraq. (Too many to REALLY cover!):
__________________________________________________
Bush knew and lied anyway example #1:
“Iraq is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program.” GWB, 10/2002.

Fact:
A 1997 report by the U.N.’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)—the agency whose purpose is to prevent nuclear proliferation—stated there was no indication Iraq ever achieved nuclear capability or had any physical capacity for producing weapons-grade nuclear material in the near future.

In February 2001, the CIA delivered a report to the White House that said: “We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since Desert Fox to reconstitute its weapons of mass destruction programs.” The report was so definitive that Secretary of State Colin Powell said in a subsequent press conference, Saddam Hussein “has not developed any significant capability with respect to weapons of mass destruction.”
_______________________________________________________
Bush knew and lied anyway example #2:
“The Iraqi regime possesses biological and chemical weapons…And according to the British government, the Iraqi regime could launch a biological or chemical attack in as little as 45 minutes.” Bush, 9/26/2002 [Source: White House Web site]

Fact:
The Washington Post reported that Bush “ignored the fact that U.S. intelligence mistrusted the source” of the 45-minute claim and, therefore, omitted it from its intelligence estimates. Bush also ignored the fact that the Defense Intelligence Agency previously submitted a report to the administration finding “no reliable information” to prove Iraq was producing or stockpiling chemical weapons. According to Newsweek, the conclusion was similar to the findings of a 1998 government commission on WMD chaired by Rumsfeld.
____________________________________________________

I always like to state facts based on actual evidence, as I am sure you do on your radio show.

By the by, I failed to see one checkable quote in your response. Facts can stubborn little things!

Now onto your uninformed comments regarding my beliefs,
The 10 commandments:
My understanding is that these are not to be displayed, but were placed in the Ark of the Covenant, and "written on the heart" of every believer. Isn't placing monuments idolatry?

Abortion:
Are awful, terrible, and should be rare and legal. To my knowledge Christ never said anything about abortion.
_____________________________________________________
Two things:

1. Do you have enough guts to pray on the air for the thousands of Iraqis civilians killed?

2. Do you have enough guts to have a liberal on the air to state their case rather than spouting what you presume they stand for as you do in your email response?

Best,
Panhandle Truth Squad