[lbo-talk] I don't get it...

[andie nachgeborenen]

I don't think there was a conspiracy in the sense that
they got together in a room and said, we don't believe
this, let's cover it up. After all, communists and
terrotoists conspire, capitalists work by invisible
hand mechanisms. They did get together and ask, what
will sell this war? They decided they needed a threat,
and ordered their intelligence agencies to show there
was one. When the CIA, etc, couldn't or wouldn't, they
made it up themselves ina  credude and incopenent sort
of way. 

But wilfull blindness, which is what is going on gere,
amounts to knowledge in the eyes of the law. It can
satisfy the required mental state of knowledge as the
element of a crime, and you can go to prison on that
basis. It's not a  mitigation that you only buried
your head in the sand and refused to draw the
inferences that were screaming in your face. 

If it makes you feel better about my view that I do
not think that the Bushies said out loud, with a
Snidley Whiplash wuhahaha, we know this is a lie, but
we'll say it anyway, then take it that way. jks

--- Luke Benjamin Weiger <lweiger at umich.edu> wrote:
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> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, andie nachgeborenen wrote:
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> > I'm tired of this. You win by default.
> 
> Here's what I don't understand: Bush is getting
> nailed for one fabrication
> right now (I'm sure there were more and we'll
> probably hear about some of
> them in due course).  You think the Bushies could
> confidently and
> competently conceal the fact that they secretly
> believed _all_ the WMD
> charges were rubish?  That would be a conspiracy of
> epic proportions, and,
> if they were capable of such a heroic conspiracy,
> you'd think they
> would've planted CBWs after the war while they were
> at it.
> 
> -- LUke
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