Re: was, And how did you celebrate 1 May? Russia

In article <U6adnRBx289dAa7VnZ2dnUVZ_tDinZ2d@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>,
 mark <whitroth@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:

> > and you were wrong. I quoted sources to the effect that there was
> > substantial economic growth. Your response is to quote various hedges
> > and qualifications--which don't negate the facts.
> > 
> > Of which you were confidently ignorant.
> 
> Obviously, from what I posted, I was not.

You were, on the basis of what you posted, ignorant of the facts. 
Obviously after I posted the reference you were no longer ignorant of 
them.

> > Have you gotten around yet to finding some sup****t for your false
> > assertions about what I said about the Iraq war? Or do you simply not
> > care whether what you say is true?
> 
> Actually, I just realized the answer: you asserted that we had military
> goals. You refuse to acknowledge that you implied they were *valid*
> military goals. I, however, have no reasonable choice but to believe
that
> you *did* imply that; after all, would you suggest we had invalid
military
> goals in invading Iraq?

Why not? If you actually read the thread, it would have been perfectly 
obvious that I wasn't claiming they were valid military goals. I wasn't 
saying anything at all about either their validity or invalidity, merely 
that they were military goals, which was what was relevant to the point 
I was making.

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