I feel it's a stretch to say 'he lied us into the Iraq war' as if everyone based their decisions on that. There's an very unfortunate tendency in political discussions to rely on fallacies of composition, where an instance of some phenomenon is taken as equivalent to a whole. Throwing that out with no further context or discussion looks like a genetic fallacy as well. The White House has already acknowledged the reported conversation appears to be authentic.
the person that i was in 2002 did not—and would not—spin a story out of whole cloth into the national press—especially one that would contribute to the deaths of over 100k innocent people
There were many people on the rowing team, but as someone who lived through it, Goldberg was one of its most vigorous members. One expects that there is a special place in hell for all of them.
I mean I lived through it too. So did many others on this site. And my most memorable image is of Colin Powell giving his speech about "yellow cake" to the UN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhWlPo3qxak.
I don't even remember Goldberg or anything he wrote about it, fwiw.
Goldberg wrote an influential-at-the-time article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Goldberg#Views_on_Iraq
I feel it's a stretch to say 'he lied us into the Iraq war' as if everyone based their decisions on that. There's an very unfortunate tendency in political discussions to rely on fallacies of composition, where an instance of some phenomenon is taken as equivalent to a whole. Throwing that out with no further context or discussion looks like a genetic fallacy as well. The White House has already acknowledged the reported conversation appears to be authentic.
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Thank you for taking the time to remind us that everything is black and white, and there are no shades or grey.
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Stay mad.
The person I was in 2002 is vastly different than who I am now (PS- I am not Jeff Goldberg). I would assume the same would apply to you as well.
the person that i was in 2002 did not—and would not—spin a story out of whole cloth into the national press—especially one that would contribute to the deaths of over 100k innocent people
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What does this have to do with this story?
Yes, same Jeff who was an ex-IDF prison guard
Why do we throw pearls before these swine lemon_zest?
I could have swore that was Dick Cheney.
There were many people on the rowing team, but as someone who lived through it, Goldberg was one of its most vigorous members. One expects that there is a special place in hell for all of them.
I mean I lived through it too. So did many others on this site. And my most memorable image is of Colin Powell giving his speech about "yellow cake" to the UN: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhWlPo3qxak.
I don't even remember Goldberg or anything he wrote about it, fwiw.
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And yet here you are saying we shouldn't listen to a story about people being bombed based on political calculus.
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