jdiebremse wrote:
--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Nick Arnett" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
You didn't ask what George Bush would do if he were president,
which
would
be silly, since he is. You asked what *I* would do. I haven't been
elected, so I'd resign.
Do you really not understand that I simply don't want to play the game
of
"What would I do if I were president?"
Yes, I understand that you have absolutely no interest in being
constructive on a difficult issue like Iraq. Rather, you are much more
comfortable just engaging in partisan criticism, without having to offer
any constructive suggestions for what an approrpriate Iraq
policy/strategy would be.....
If you'd just started with a "If the President asked you for advice
about Iraq, what would you say" instead of asking a question that could,
on the face of it, be taken as hypothesizing a situation that just was
NOT going to happen, you might have gotten the sort of answer you were
looking for the first time around.
If you ask a question that has a LITERAL meaning that you didn't intend,
someone here WILL take it literally and call you on it, one way or another.
(It might be me. It might not. If I decide to take something
literally, however, I will be all over it like fleas on a dog until the
original poster asks the question he or she MEANT to ask, in an
unambiguous manner.)
Julia
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