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Originally posted by bilmore
Dissent. Strong dissent. The value of the goal notwithstanding, honor means something. Bush has given scant cause for worry about his honor, and there's no need to even concede what you do here.
As soon as you say "it doesn't matter anyway", you've given the shape shifters of the world another slogan for a year or two. It doesn't matter if it's substantive. Idiots will latch on to it, and it's not worth it.
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OK: since perceptions do matter.
But from a cost/benefit analysis I think it would have been beneficial to go in anyway. And whether Bush lied has nothing to do with whether it was a right decision to go in. The anti-war people keep referring to the lie, like somehow the lie effects the cost benefit analysis.
The lie may be relevent to Bush's character but it is not relevent when dicussing whether or not the war was the right action to take. Either the war was the right move or wrong move but whether or not he lied in no way figures into that analysis
