Reply #45: If frogs had wings, they wouldn't bump their ass every time they jumped. [View All]

[NinetySix]

IF Kerry had had his way? IF? This is a reason to vote against him? Why not just say that IF George W. Bush had been the President in 1991 instead of his father, we'd be in the same Goddamned mess we're in now, only further along the timeline, with no coalition, uncontrolable insurgency, probably tens of thousands of US casualties, an irreparable reputation in the international community, and suffering under the crushing costs of continued military operations? As long as we're speaking in hypotheticals, that is.

A hypothetical whose antecedent is false gives a positive truth value, but only because the falsity of the statement cannot be logically determined; the only way to prove a hypothetical false is to show that the consequences do not follow from the antecedent, hence, for Cheney to be proven false, Kerry would have had to ACTUALLY be the President in 1991, faced with the same situation, and acted differently than Cheney asserts. In other words, such hypothetical assertions are empty. QED.