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Originally posted by baddog
not even. a lie has to be intentional
lie2 ( P ) Pronunciation Key (l)
n.
A false statement deliberately presented as being true; a falsehood.
Something meant to deceive or give a wrong impression.
If you believe that Columbus sailed for the New World in 1493, but in fact he left in 1492, it doesn't make you a liar.
You think you are right now, that does not make you a liar. You actually believe what you are saying is correct, even though your thoughts are based on inaccurate information. THat does not mean you lied.
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then what if you had some information. Say that Iraq had purchased a bunch of aluminum tubes. and one your advisors tells you that those tubes are used for enriching uranium for nuclear weapons. So you contact a bunch of you nuclear advisors - people who know about this stuff. 8 of them tell you nope. the tubes are too big for that, they are probably used as missle bodies but anyone that knows how to enrich uranium would know that those tubes are not for that. and 1 of them says yes, it could be for enriching uranium. And you go on TV and say Iraq purchased aluminum tubes for enriching uranium.
I guess technically you might not be lying, but you certianly aren't telling the whole truth.
Also Bush told the people time and again, I remeber watching it a few times. That our war on terrorism includes Iraq and that they harbor terrorist and we need to remove saddam to make our country safer.
He had info before saying that, before attacking, that this was just not true and yet he still said it.
I think that's a lie.
Cheney the other day was asked what he thought of the 9/11 commision saying that Iraq had nothing to do with 9/11 or Osama or Al Quieda (sp) and he said " they were involved, there are connections."
Is he lying to us or did he lie to them whe he testified because if he knows there are connections you would think he would have told them so and shown proof.