You apodictically stated that Ali had "lied through his teeth", and gave
examples which scrutiny of your sources did not bear out. Your opinion
of his actual substantive assertions, which you have not demonstrated
any genuine capacity to assess, really isn't the issue.
> But the fact remains: did the U.S. and British carry out the mosque and marketplace bombings, or did Iraqi Islamist sectarians, including al-Qaeda in Iraq, which Ali denied existed?
>
Ali did not deny that "Al Qaeda in Iraq" existed. He said precisely the opposite. Ali did not claim that all mosque and market-place bombings were carried out by the US and Britain. He noted that black ops were an integral part of war making. Everyone can hear it by listening to his answers on the Youtube clips. If there's anyone doing gas-lighting here, it's you.
> It's not me who has "smeared" Ali, but rather the defense of Ali, to which everyone seems to have risen, ends up, inevitably, smearing me. That says something.
Self-pitying, self-aggrandising bullshit. You've consistently failed to deal with the substance of what people have said to you, now you're pretending to have been smeared. Disgusting.
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