----- Original Message ----- From: "Ronn!Blankenship" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Killer Bs Discussion" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, February 01, 2004 10:00 PM Subject: Re: Doing Business With The Enemy
> At 08:23 PM 2/1/04, Reggie Bautista wrote: > >Gautam Mukunda wrote: > > > He's not alone. Ted Kennedy claimed that the Iraq war > > > was "cooked up in Texas" for corrupt oil reasons. > > > Sending us to war to pay off your buddies would, > > > again, be treason in my book - maybe not legally, but > > > morally. Teddy was probably drunk off his ass, or too > > > busy drowning innocent young women to think about what > > > he was saying - something like that. > > > >Personal attacks make for good arguements since when? Maybe you've been > >working such long hours that you've forgotten that one of the principles of > >this list is to attack the argument, not the person who made it. Tell us > >why Ted Kennedy's arguements are wrong without resorting to bringing up an > >incident that happened... how many decades ago? > > > Mary Jo Kopeckne is still dead after all those decades. True enough, but that is still irrelevant to the current discussion. There is no excuse for ad-hominem attacks. Ad-hominem attacks are sloppy reasoning and sloppy thinking. TK is not alone in his claims that the Iraq War was "cooked up in Texas," and there are a lot of good reasons why he and others are not completely correct in that accusation, as well as good reasons why the accusation was made in the first place. But there are much stronger arguments against that accusation that dismissing the accusation because of Mary Jo Kopeckne. What happened with Mary Jo Kopeckne, no matter how wrong and how unpunished, has no causal link with TK's claims and the claims of others concerning the Iraq War. The one simply has nothing to do with the other. Reggie Bautista _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
