Create a false rationale.
When he felt compelled to tell the truth about President Bush's false rationale for the invasion of Iraq - the infamous 16 words in his 2003 State of the Union address claiming Saddam Hussein was securing yellow cake uranium for nuclear weapons - vice president Dick Cheney ordered the defamation of Wilson's reputation.
Factoring in the war in Iraq, another war waged on a false rationale, the U.S. has spent around $1.4 trillion so far -- a fact one would think might come up in a presidential debate devoted to the economy.
The success of these movies also shores up a false market rationale that's used to justify blockbusters in general: that is, these movies make money, therefore people like them; people like them, therefore these movies are made.
We toppled a dictatorship on a false 9/11 rationale, which plunged Iraq into a sectarian civil war inside a war with the United States.
But the worst part of the experience was this: I had blogged the whole project – background, rationale, false starts, findings, corrections – openly online.
But when I answer the question of why with a conjecture (e.g. he was "crazy"), I attempt to find closure to the issue by giving the murders a false or hypothetical rationale.
So while we can dispense with theological rationales and false words of comfort, we are still left with a question: How do we respond?
These misstatements go very well with the administration's false "weapons of mass destruction" rationale for invading Iraq; and with the president's equally false assurance that warrant requirements for domestic surveillance were being observed in the post-9/11 era, to name two salient examples.
The time will come when you will be forced to admit not only that the war in Iraq was stupidly conducted, but also doomed to failure from the outset because of the hopeless cultural and political ignorance underlying the false premises of its ideological rationale.
Those who are bigots -- white or otherwise -- blather on about responsibility and bad behavior (valid issues frequently inapplicable), bandy false equivocations disguised as true rationale; raise their fists or argue their flags to proclaim superiority or victimhood, depending on perspective.
