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Originally Posted by Preechr
Does that satisfy the test of definition? Didn't pretty much everybody actually believe that Saddam had WMD? If he believed it was true when he said it, then it was a mistake, not a lie.
The gravity of that or any of his other mistakes is another discussion, and I think we should wait on Geggy to show up for this one before we move on, if that's Ok with you...
BTW, we did actually find a stockpile of over 500 artillery shells loaded with Sarin or Mustard Gas or something. Might not be a nuke, but I think that qualifies as hidden biological weaponry, don't you?
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Well, let's say you have some intel, the veracity of which can only really be expressed in terms of ambiguity, and you fail to mention this in a caveat, you have lied. A Platonic (or Straussian) "noble lie" is still a lie.