IS 'SPIN' A LIE?
Could be.
AS writes, "Bush Misjudged. Bush Ignored Important Evidence. Bush Massaged The Truth. And so on. "Lied" isn't right - but the truth, not much better, doesn't fit on a poster."
There are types of lies. Perhaps it's a language problem at the heart of this analysis.
I think that we've uncovered (I won't say "learned") that you don't spin war, because of what it does to a nation (not the one attacked, either).
As for "misjudge", it does seem possible to make an honest misjudgment, to lay out the risks and the costs and the associated judgments fairly, and to make a dissembling misjudgment, in which you intentionally mask the judgment, by puffing-up benefits and masking costs ... Did Tony Blair do better by his public?
We can certainly guess that Bush did lie about his motives and about when he had made a decision to go to war.
As for the poster stuff, which is code for shared responsibility, that is true, with its own shading. Still, I think the context to judge that is the 2004 election campaign. It still astounds me that, having found no WMD, that Bush et. al. could be re-elected ... What does that say about America?
Ask John F Kennedy:
John F Kennedy Says:
We are not afraid to entrust the American people with unpleasant facts, foreign ideas, alien philosophies and competitive values. For a nation that is afraid to let its people judge the truth and falsehood in an open market is a nation that is afraid of its people.
