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Stolen from Uncledark and he stole it from here:(http://sensiblyeclectic.com/news/index.php/mainsite/2006/06/20/bushian_logic)

Bushian Logic

But the Bush administration is not big on European philosophers. So perhaps we can develop the philosophy in purely Bushian terms. To highlight its logic, I will present it in mathematical form, the way that Spinoza presented his ethics:

Axiom 1: We are good people.

Axiom 2: Our enemies are bad people.

Axiom 3: Anything that helps good people beat bad people is good.

Corollary 1: Whatever we do to beat our enemies is good.

Corollary 2: Whatever hinders us from doing what we do to beat our enemies is bad.

Theorem 1: Anythingthat makes us look bad is false. (Proof: If it makes us look bad, itmust be false, because, according to Corollary 1, what we do to beatour enemies is good, not
bad.)

Corollary 3:It can’t be true that the Guantanamo prisoners killed themselvesbecause of how we treated them. (Proof: That would make us look bad.Whatever makes us look bad is false.)

Surprising Corollary 4: Facts that make us look bad are false.
(Proof: Follows directly from Theorem 1.) (Comment: If you thought thatfacts can’t be false, you haven’t understood that truth and falsity aremoral terms: truth is what good people say, falsity is what bad peoplesay. If bad people state facts, those facts are false.)

Theorem 2: Laws that constrain us are bad. (Proof: Follows directly from Corollary 2.) But –

Axiom 4: Good people support the rule of law, and that makes the rule of law good.

Corollary 4: We support the rule of law. (Proof: By Axiom 1, we’re good people; and by Axiom 4, good people support the rule of law.)

Surprising Theorem 3:Laws that constrain us don’t exist. (Proof: By Theorem 2, a law thatconstrains us would be bad. But by Axiom 4, the rule of law is good.Therefore there cannot be such a thing as a law that constrains us.)

Axiom 5: Anything that anyone uses against us is a weapon of our enemies.
Decisive Theorem: Any international forum or legal argument that mightconstrain us, or anything that might make us look bad, is a weapon ofour enemies.

Axiom 6: We’re strong and our enemies are weak.

Corollary 5:Any international forum or legal argument that might constrain us, oranything that might make us look bad, is a weapon of the weak. To putit in other words, it is an act of asymmetric war against us.

I love you Uncle Dark! Even in an insomniac state, you rock my socks! I miss the Oracle Of Oakland. Must go to Ancient Ways soon.

Comments

[uberreiniger.livejournal.com]

Can't argue with the Spinoza spoof. It does mirror the mindset of quite a few people. I don't know if I'm comfortable with assumptions of any kind being made about why the Gitmo detainees did what they did though simply because no one knows what's going on in there. And that's the problem. If we did, we could lay this whole issue to rest.