Reply #78: Why is this an either/or thing?

[TayTay]

The Foley case is not going away for at least a couple of weeks. Why not ask for hearings and make the point that we are not getting the full story on something that is costing us lives, money and goodwill around the world?

You are making points against yourself. First you say that the people near you can only hear one thing at a time and it that thing has the word sex in it, they will remember it. Ah, this story is not going away, the news media is going to be talking about this for a while.

There are people who don't live near you who are swayed by arguments about Iraq. (Maybe they have kids or spouses or friends or family members over there. Maybe they just dislike this war and dislike being lied to.) Are you seriously telling me that we can't have a functioning Congress that can do two things at once and that people will pick what they want to listen to and give it weight according to their own beliefs and views?

By your own admission, some people will listen to one thing. That one thing will still be there. But just because you claim the people around you are dumb, the rest of the country shouldn't have hearings on one of the most critical issues to face America in a generation? Sorry, but that is just plain wrong.