Word: logical
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...bait and taunt Nader with questions such as: “How do you feel knowing that over 1,000 people died in Iraq because you ran for president?” For his part, Nader responded obstinately, often attacking the questioner instead of his or her logic. Throughout the question and answer session a contingent of Lyndon LaRouche supporters also rudely catcalled, heckled and chanted over Nader and other attendees in a fairly base display of disrespect...
...Election Day, there's reason to believe they guessed wrong--that Dean would be doing better against Bush than Kerry is. Yes, it's too late for Democrats to switch horses, but imagining how Dean might have done sheds light on what's going on now. Here's the logic...
There will be people who say that this is yet another attempt to justify terrorism or condone it. Using the same chain of logic, then, those who point out that cigarette smokers are more vulnerable to cancer are cancer apologists. Nor is this a call to abrogate the use of force in the fight against terrorism. Force is needed, but we also need to understand and grasp factors that make the idea of terror take hold of man’s imagination. And those who try to block such an attempt to understand this terror mentality are apostates disguised...
After Sept. 11, it was a common saying that America would never be the same. A free country rocked by terror had to find a new balance between liberty and security. A similarly dangerous logic is now at work in the Russian Federation, with a vital difference. It is not that Russia will never be the same. Indeed, the problem is that the former superpower is becoming yet another iteration on the same old Russian model. Russia’s young experiment with democracy looks more doomed than ever in the hands of an increasingly power-hungry ex-KGB officer...
...answer to the political question, U.S. officials hope, will be the elections slated for January, since, if the Iraqis get to choose their own government, they'll have a stake in defending it. That's sound logic, although there are strong indicators that if the Iraqis get to choose their own government it may not look much like the one the U.S. is currently dealing with, and according to current indications of the platforms of a variety of Iraqi politicians may even be committed to asking the U.S. to leave...