That's certainly an edge. But you can't accuse someone of crimes that you know super-secret proof of, that the rest of us can't know. You can either prove your case, or you're sorta stuck. Otherwise I can bring up my super-secret satellite evidence that you torture kittens. I can't produce the proof, because it's classified--but you should be ashamed of yourself, and folks who pass you on the street should take my advice and spit on your shoe.
And do tell what should I be ashamed of?
Read it again: you should be ashamed of yourself for torturing all those kittens. I realize I haven't proven that you do that, but that's only because the proof is classified. When it's allowed to come out, boy will
you be publicly embarrassed!
And who says things have not been proven? You or the talking heads. Just because the public doesn't know everything that is going on doesn't mean there isn't proof.
If you're allowed to claim proof that I'm not allowed to see, then I'm allowed to call you a kitten torturer. If you can't show the proof, then you're in the same fix as if you don't have it at all. That's the whole point of my kitten parable above.
However, several specific cases have actually been exposed when administration has claimed that this or that came from Iran, and the claim was proven false.
You yourself would have to admit that 80% of the American public believes what they are told to believe or really don't care.
Absolutely. That's exactly how we got into this mess in the first place--and it's why over two-thirds of the populace still believes Saddam had WMDs AND was in league with Al Qaeda. For the record, I believed both. The first wakeup call was Bush claiming it was never about WMDs; I spent personal credibility defending his false claims, and it was a kick in the teeth for him to go and disavow them completely.
And as for spitting on my shoe. What are you going to call for next, calling us baby killers when we come home like happened to the Vietnam Vets?
I'm not talking about your military service. I'm talking about all the kittens you've tortured. The proof is in your classified dossier in an underground vault at an undisclosed location.
--Len.