Bush Picture
I notice that my "politics" entries use a picture
of GWB as a little devil. This seemed appropriate before election time, when I
was campaigning against him. However, most of my thoughts about public policy
are entirely unrelated to Bush. And I never did think he, or his worst cronies,
are "evil." They are doing their best to make the world better. I happen to
have a different opinion of how best to do that. My opinion is backed by the
scientific method (that is, by questioning hypotheses, looking and weighing
multiple sources), while his seems to be by closing his eyes to anything that
might threaten his preconceived notions of how the world
works.
When someone is so certain that
they are right that they are willing to use any means to achieve their
objective, it can lead to horrific results. In particular, our administration
was so certain that it was a good idea to invade Iraq that they ignored all
evidence that they did not pose a threat to us, or even to their
neighbors.
I am confident that they
honestly believed they would find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. If they
thought they might not, they would have been sure to plant some.
Filed Sun - March 6, 2005, 03:58 PM in
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