Category: Hot Off The Presses
Tuesday, July 22, 2003
Whaddaya know, Howard Dean has been guest-blogging over on Larry Lessig's blog -- I apparently missed it while I was on vacation. The man makes some good points, too:
As a doctor, I'm trained to base my decisions on facts. This President never adequately laid out the facts for going to war with Iraq -- perhaps, as it turns out, because the facts were not there. I opposed the war not because I'm a pacifist -- I'm not -- but because the evidence presented did not justify preemptive war. I opposed needle exchanges for drug addicts until I saw the empirical evidence that showed how such exchanges reduce the spread of disease. I changed my position, and I'm proud of that. Facts are a better basis for decisions than ideology.
"Facts are a better basis for decisions than ideology". There's refreshing words to hear from a politician!
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