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Originally posted by Displaced Flames fan+Jul 31 2004, 10:04 PM--></div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td>QUOTE (Displaced Flames fan @ Jul 31 2004, 10:04 PM)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'> <!--QuoteBegin-FlamesAllTheWay@Jul 31 2004, 02:53 AM
No you don't. Many people nowadays are becoming so idealogically divided that they don't really hold 'their side' accountable for anything. Look how many people don't care they were misled about WMD's in Iraq (ex: "Well, at least we got rid of Saddam..."). The Liberals staying in power as the governing party of Canada as well.
Second, if you lie and get caught, all you need is a scapegoat. CIA, FBI, Clinton, etc, in this case...
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Come on now....you're reaching. You and I both know that with all the vocal protest both within the US and internationally that the administration KNEW that getting another 4 years in office likely depended on everything they said about Iraq being proven true.
Do you really think they'd go knowing that there was nothing there and say we'll just blame the CIA and believe they'd get re-elected?
I don't.
Bush isn't THAT stupid, and neither are the people who surround him. [/b][/quote]
I'm not so sure he's all that smart. His IQ is hardly presidential - in fact it's the lowest in some time. Maybe his EQ makes up for it but at this point I tend to think he's not even calling the shots.
An analysis of Presidential IQ's over the past 50 years:
* 147 Franklin D. Roosevelt (D)
* 132 Harry Truman (D)
* 122 Dwight D. Eisenhower ®
* 174 John F. Kennedy (D)
* 126 Lyndon B. Johnson (D)
* 155 Richard M. Nixon ®
* 121 Gerald Ford ®
* 175 James E. Carter (D)
* 105 Ronald Reagan ®
* 099 George HW Bush ®
* 182 William J. Clinton (D)
* 091 George W. Bush ®
Gerald Ford, not noted his being bright, trumps both Bushes in the study. Not that it's a prerequisite (other things count like personablity and such) but it seems a tad meager. Maybe he did do all of that, I don't know. It can't be counted out though.
Completely on another topic, Carter, Clinton Kennedy and Nixon are Mensa material.