Comment Re:You just now started worrying? (Score 1) 460
Of course, if instead I had decided to point out the "Iraq has WMD, we must invade,"
Them having WMD was a falsehood. We must invade is a policy decision based on a falsehood.
"mission accomplished" (regarding Iraq, in 2003!)
Mission accomplished could be subjective or objective, depends on if there was a stated mission and if so, was it verifiable accomplished. I just assume it was subjective and mistaken.
"we need the wall street bail out" of the Bush administration
Policy decision, not a fact.
"we have to arm the Contras" of the Reagan administration
Policy decision, not a fact.
People can disagree on policy decisions. If it were -only- the typical conservative nonsense of being against personal autonomy ("pro-life"), and trying to use the law to enforce religious beliefs (Christian sharia law), I could deal with that.
The attempts at gas lighting, lying about even the most easily disproven things, coupled with all the horrendous policies held by the new administration... are why we shouldn't trust the new government.
I hated GWB, but I'll take 20 years of GWB/similar conservative presidents over what we have now. At least we could trust them for the most part, even if we didn't agree with them or were disgusted by their beliefs.... we could for the most part trust them.