People paying attention in Idaho's 1st Congressional District, who aren't necessarily all people voting in the district, already knew their new congressman's scientific knowledge is faith-based. Bill Sali (pictured) continues, for example, to reject reputable studies showing no link between abortion and breast cancer, preferring assurances from the anti-abortion Concerned Women for America that the former causes the latter. But who knew that Sali's understanding of world events is equally dependent on what he divines to be true, as opposed to what is really true? A case in point is the reason for continuing to support President Bush's conduct of the Iraq War that Sali cited in Lewiston last week. Arguing against timelines for withdrawing troops from a country torn by civil war, Sali said if Iraqis were left without an occupying army, they would somehow come after the United States. "Every life that's sacrificed over there, I believe saves a lot of lives in this country," he said. That's the right argument for the wrong war -- Jim Fisher/Lewiston Tribune.
Question: Is it time to pull U.S. troops and allow the Iraqis to kill themselves until they're so tired of the bloodshed that they settle their differences?
D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.
already knew their new congressman's scientific knowledge is faith-based. Bill Sali (pictured) continues, for example, to reject reputable studies showing no link between abortion and breast cancer, preferring assurances from the anti-abortion Concerned Women for America that the former causes the latter. But who knew that Sali's understanding of world events is equally dependent on what he divines to be true, as opposed to what is really true? A case in point is the reason for continuing to support President Bush's conduct of the Iraq War that Sali cited in Lewiston last week. Arguing against timelines for withdrawing troops from a country torn by civil war, Sali said if Iraqis were left without an occupying army, they would somehow come after the United States. "Every life that's sacrificed over there, I believe saves a lot of lives in this country," he said. That's the right argument for the wrong war -- Jim Fisher/Lewiston Tribune.
