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Originally posted by Tyrone_Slothrop
I wasn't insinuating that you weren't well read -- . . .
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You have explicitly said, in several posts recently, that it would be nice if I actually read what you posted before I attacked it. I have.
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What struck me as odd all week was the idea that Spaniards would respond to terrorist bombings on the eve of elections by turning on their leaders.
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Me too. But I believed it. That's what the evidence shows happened.
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One could say, you guys really want the story to be about Spanish appeasement. Why do you want the story to be an Al Qaeda victory so badly?
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"Want"? No, you misunderestimate. The story WAS about Spanish appeasement and cowardice. I would much rather it had not been that way. Why do you want it to be otherwise so badly that you will go through these contortions to keep it from being so? You have made up a new, after-the-fact rationalization that fails to square with the facts (go look at pics of the election-eve protests, and read their signs) and that glorifies justifications that even the Spanish didn't think of until the morning after? Why do you so not want this to be a reflection of base self-interest, fear, and ransom-paying?
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I've already said that I don't know enough to call him a liar, but you just keep on beating that horse.
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Your linked article started out with "now that we all agree that he's a fucking liar . . .". You can lead a horse to water, but you can't paint it pink.
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Drum was obviously referring to other posts and accounts -- plainly, it's (the accusations of lying) an aside to the post.
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It was his first headline, bolded, and his second thesis sentence, and the rest of the blog was in support of those statements. If I say "Atticus is a big fat lying sunnovabitch who screws sheep on Thursdays", my main point isn't that AG has a good social life on Thursdays.
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eta: You seem to think I cited Drum as proof for the proposition that Aznar lied. I linked to that post because it contained the bit from the Financial Times that I quoted. Nothing in my post referenced or relied on what Drum said about it -- and yet here you are having a tizzy fit because of a few words at the start of his post. Really, get a grip.
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Uh huh. Then link to the FT article, and avoid the initial "HE LIED HE LIED HE LIED HE'S A BIG FAT LIAR" dicta that means nothing to you.
