Thursday, October 23, 2003
Republicans: The New/Old Moral and Epistemological Relativists (Part 77)
Dawkins writes:
There is no right or wrong in the world anymore. There is no truth or falsity. There is only "difference of opinion." Dick Cheney says so.
In Sy Hersh's latest must-read New Yorker piece, the writer brings the story of the fabricated Iraq-Niger "yellowcake" documents up to date, and concludes the piece:
Read this vital story in its entirety here.
There is no right or wrong in the world anymore. There is no truth or falsity. There is only "difference of opinion." Dick Cheney says so.
In Sy Hersh's latest must-read New Yorker piece, the writer brings the story of the fabricated Iraq-Niger "yellowcake" documents up to date, and concludes the piece:
Vice-President Cheney remains unabashed about the Administration’s reliance on the Niger documents, despite the revelation of their forgery. In a September interview on “Meet the Press,” Cheney claimed that the British dossier’s charge that “Saddam was, in fact, trying to acquire uranium in Africa” had been “revalidated.” Cheney went on, “So there may be a difference of opinion there. I don’t know what the truth is on the ground. . . . I don’t know Mr. Wilson. I probably shouldn’t judge him.”
Read this vital story in its entirety here.