{"id":514,"date":"2006-08-25T12:01:36","date_gmt":"2006-08-25T19:01:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=514"},"modified":"2006-08-25T12:01:36","modified_gmt":"2006-08-25T19:01:36","slug":"weasels-for-common-sense","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/?p=514","title":{"rendered":"Weasels for Common Sense"},"content":{"rendered":"

I wonder, is Orson Scott Card, a moderately famous science fiction author, a weasel<\/a> for saying<\/a> that the burden of proof that George W. Bush is a liar is on those who claim he knew in advance, all evidence to the contrary, that Saddam Hussein did not posess weapons of mass destruction:<\/p>\n

It was not a lie for Bush to state the information available to him and to all the intelligence services of other countries: That Saddam had poison gas, was pursuing bioweapons, and had a nuclear program designed to give him nukes.<\/p>\n

Saddam’s own behavior, refusing to allow untrammeled inspections, did not look like the actions of an innocent man.<\/p>\n

It turned out that there was no serious nuclear threat from Saddam. But the fact that we did not find the poison gas did not mean he never had it — we know he did. What it proved was that he either destroyed it, concealed it, or moved it to another country — with Syria the most likely candidate.<\/p>\n

The most suspicious fact is that we found no evidence of the destruction of the poison gas. There would have been no reason for Saddam to conceal such destruction — he could have invited international observation of such actions and the world would have applauded.<\/p>\n

Poison gas is not destroyed without leaving behind evidence. The lack of evidence of poison gas when we invaded Iraq does not suggest its nonexistence.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Card goes on to cite numerous, well, lies about George W. Bush’s supposed malfeasances.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I wonder, is Orson Scott Card, a moderately famous science fiction author, a weasel for saying that the burden of proof that George W. Bush is a liar is on those who claim he knew in advance, all evidence to the contrary, that Saddam Hussein did not posess weapons of mass destruction: It was not … Continue reading “Weasels for Common Sense”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-514","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-journal","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=514"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/514\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=514"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=514"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/balafon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=514"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}