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to: Gary Wiltshire
from: Robert G Lewis
date: 2006-03-04 09:51:52
subject: Re: What Shrub knew

From: "Robert G Lewis" 


"Gary Wiltshire"  wrote in message
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> On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 18:25:46 -0500, John Cuccia 
> wrote:
>
>> On Thu, 02 Mar 2006 14:03:50 -0500, "Gary Wiltshire"

>> wrote:
>>
>>> The point I'm making is that in any situation a president can be told
>>> one
>>> thing by 99 out of 100 experts and the 1 out of 100 who happened to be
>>> right, even if only that one time, is portrayed as a prophet.
>>
>> In this case, though, I doubt very, very seriously that he got
>> contradictory advice.
>>
>> I imagine that the only people who may have been willing to predict
>> that a New Orleans levee would *not* fail during a hurricane are on
>> the Bush WMD-detection team.
>
> Wrong -- a video just surfaced on the news showing Blanco opining that the
> levies hadn't failed -- long after they had.
>
> --
> Gary Wiltshire

Offering an opinion, an incorrect opinion, is not the same as stating a
levee would NOT fail. So John's statement is correct.

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