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Grasping At Straws

by John Cole|  July 29, 20046:32 am| 1 Comment

This post is in: Democratic Stupidity

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Dear Kos,

Please look up post hoc ergo propter hoc. Then get back to your regularly scheduled cheerleading for the deaths of Americans.

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    Neil Shah

    July 30, 2004 at 12:14 pm

    So I guess this could be applied to claiming that America is safer because Saddam is behind bars? Or from Bush claiming that 4 months of job growth was a result of his upper-class tax cuts?

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