Reason for getting out of Iraq - the poll about the poll

[Tim><]

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[Tim><]

Soon we will have enough data to do perform likelihood ratio tests.

[2pac Shakur]

Terrible poll.
Biased.

[DonkeyKick]

It has got a 42 option though

[2pac Shakur]

Reason to get out = reason we shouldn't have gone in = same for every war...

"There has never been a just one, never an honorable one--on the part of the instigator of the war. I can see a million years ahead, and this rule will never change in so many as half a dozen instances. The loud little handful--as usual--will shout for the war. The pulpit will-- warily and cautiously--object--at first; the great, big, dull bulk of the nation will rub its sleepy eyes and try to make out why there should be a war, and will say, earnestly and indignantly, "It is unjust and dishonorable, and there is no necessity for it." Then the handful will shout louder. A few fair men on the other side will argue and reason against the war with speech and pen, and at first will have a hearing and be applauded; but it will not last long; those others will outshout them, and presently the anti-war audiences will thin out and lose popularity. Before long you will see this curious thing: the speakers stoned from the platform, and free speech strangled by hordes of furious men who in their secret hearts are still at one with those stoned speakers--as earlier-- but do not dare to say so. And now the whole nation--pulpit and all-- will take up the war-cry, and shout itself hoarse, and mob any honest man who ventures to open his mouth; and presently such mouths will cease to open. Next the statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of those conscience-soothing falsities, and will diligently study them, and refuse to examine any refutations of them; and thus he will by and by convince himself that the war is just, and will thank God for the better sleep he enjoys after this process of grotesque self-deception."

http://www.classicreader.com/read.ph...id.1370/sec.9/

[Tim><]

Please place that quote in an appropriate thread.

[Lee Mellon]

Please place that quote in an appropriate thread.

Do you mean the quote belongs in a thread where 50% of the comments aren't you responding to yourself?

[Tim><]

Originally Posted by Lee Mellon

Do you mean the quote belongs in a thread where 50% of the comments aren't you responding to yourself?

No. I mean a thread which is not merely a survey on whether we have too many polls. There were other similarly named threads where that post might have been appropriate. Counter to what you may believe, cynicism is not the true path to enlightenment.

[2pac Shakur]

Originally Posted by karma police

Please place that quote in an appropriate thread.

Thanks for the suggestion.
Allow me to suggest where to put that suggestion...