Yes, I understand the nature and slipperiness of Kerry's circumlocution, and I congratulate him on it. Bravo Kerry. We'll see how far he gets with it.
What's your point exactly?
You fell for it.
That's right, I did. I interpreted his remarks to be an accusation that Bush said "imminent threat", as will everyone else. That is his intent, of course. (Because lefties think "imminent" is a magic word that, if they can JUST pin it on Bush directly or through slippery circumlocution, they win all arguments. I guess.)
Doesn't mean he's not engaging in deception when he does this. Deception is actually the intent, as you've explained nicely.
Still don't understand quite what your point is.
And everybody keeps bitching about the lies. Well, it's not an actual lie. It's a propaganda ruse,
Well then, allow me to retroactively explain that I have been bitching about (in Kerry's case) the deceptive propaganda ruse.
Got a problem with that?
About 90% of them have been here for 3-5 years. And we wonder why the sheeple don't catch this stuff!
Doesn't this just illustrate how deceptive and dishonest Kerry's ruse is? You seem to think that all this is somehow exculpatory of Kerry and anyone else who uses this lawyerspeak you've identified. I'm not sure why.
It's not exculpatory at all.
Just a pointer: one of the original missions of this forum was to expose media bias and half-truths.
And you've done so, you've identified Kerry's "the Bush White House" phrasing, which is certainly a half-truth.
But for some reason you seem to think it's OKAY for Kerry or someone else to do that, and that we are wrong to argue against it. Um, I beg to differ.
But I suppose that's not as much fun as blind fury and cheerleading.
Show me where I've engaged in "cheerleading". "fury"? perhaps. ;-) But "cheerleading", hell no. That's a load of bulls**t (he said furiously... ;-)