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Originally Posted by Ninkobei
if Obama said that invading Iraq was a mistake, nowhere does he say that "all who volunteered" was a mistake. you're just assuming that is what he meant, which may or may not be true. the point is, why cant you just take it at face value? why do you have to turn something into its most negative form?
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??? You can't say action A is a mistake, but that choosing to perform action A is not a mistake. I'm not turning anything. They are the same thing. To pull up the school metaphor that was put out there earlier, if answering "d" on a test question is a mistake, then choosing to answer "d" is a mistake.