Surely you are smart enough to know that.
Now as far as using qualifiers I am very familiar with the concept.
Let me DEMONSTRATE.
IF you were a man of integrity you would apologize to Godzilla instead of continuing to dig your hole deeper.
IF...
If he was a man of integrity, he wouldn't have demeaned my military service as a poor excuse for losing an argument in the first place.
There was another who tried to denigrate my person. In his case he just simply made a total fool of himself by trying to claim I was a paid clergyman to post on FR. I let him out enough rope to hang himself with - because I was impressed that the quality of my counter points was hard to refute - he even asked me to come to the dark side (sorry, no cookies). So paranoid was that he thought my profile page was all made up. LOL.
But I wore the boots, humped through the woods, bag always packed for war in the unsteady Cold War era, watched as the berlin wall fell and stood ready on a moments instant to be ordered to Iraq for Desert Storm - at a time we were expecting our last child, one I may not have been able to be there for delivery - or even alive.
I gave and sacrificed the best years of my life in service to America. No snotty nosed canuck is going to even begin to touch that