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LeftishBrit Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Fri Apr-02-10 04:20 AM
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4. Nope.
Why would they want to, even?

Bush is evil. But that doesn't mean that EVERYTHING evil in the world was caused, planned or done by Bush.

I am a little bit reminded here of a story I heard of a computer programme created in the 70s (when computer programming was of course less sophisticated than now) to simulate a Republican from that time. The 'artificial Republican' 'saw' everything in terms of the Cold War, and responded to questions on the assumption that anyone who was 'bad' in those terms could have done anything that was 'bad' in those terms. E.g. it found it plausible that Fidel Castro might have created the Berlin Wall.

We have to be careful not to do the same thing in reverse, by attributing all that is bad to Bush.
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