Or is it just because the french were such an ass for not going to war with US?
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Anonymous2005-10-19 23:52
Guilty as charged. I just noticed now that you said you were using it in the philosophical sense. Whoops.
Let's run with that then. Why do we have to take their statements at face value? Their statements usually don't exist in a vacuum. We can judge based on past statements and actions, not just of the politician in question, but politicians as a group.
Just because X says they'll cut taxes, increase funding to education/medicare/whatever, doesn't make it true. Just because X says they've won the war has little bearing on reality.