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Originally Posted by Tchocky
And why couldnt he have put it the way you just did? A fair representation of the forces involved, not too hard.
....don't mind me, I'm a frustrated linguist
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No but then again I have the luxury of sitting in the comfort of my own living room taking the time to make my posts as accurate and concise as I can. I guess when everything you say is cut into 30 second sound bites it's easy to appear to be oversimplifying things. Rest assured that Cheney may be an evil capitalist pig guilty of insulting the intelligence of foreign audiences by oversimplifing complex issues in speeches but he's no "eejit".
Besides, context is everything here. Who among us here seriously doesn't know which terrorists he's talking about? FDR was never criticized for not specifying which nazis he meant when he talked about the theat they posed to the free world, nor did Ronald Reagan have to specify which evil empire he was talking about either, so I fail to understand why a mere vice president should be held to a higher standard.