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Blair is fighting back. "The idea that we authorized, or made our intelligence agencies invent, some piece of evidence is completely absurd," he said last week. Senior British intelligence officials have backed him up, so the more probable explanation of why no weapons have materialized is either an overestimation before the war or an incompetent search since. Better for Blair to be a fool than a knave, but not by much; if his judgment was faulty on his casus belli, his leadership will be suspect. Despite the paltry results so far of the search for Iraq's banned weapons...
...corporations vow they will fight any efforts to make them pay. "These suits are absurd and racially divisive," says Robert Hartwig of the Insurance Information Institute, an industry group. "Slavery was abhorrent. But should government contractors have to go back 140 years, spending millions on research and legal fees?" --By Margot Roosevelt
...attitude that it is okay to support the troops and be against the war is rather absurd,” he says...
...further discussion of the O.A. is quite to the point—he himself realizes its superiority to any E, however A. His illustration includes one of the key “Wake Up the Grader” phrases—“It is absurd.” What force! What gall! What fun! “Ridiculous,” “hopeless,” “nonsense,” on the one hand; “doubtless,” “obvious,” “unquestionable...
...long run the expert in the use of unwarranted assumption comes off better than the equivocator. He would deal with our question on Hume not by baffling the grader or by fencing him but like this: “It is absurd to discuss whether Hume is representative of the age in which he lived unless we note the progress of that age on all fronts. After all, Hume did not live in a vacuum...