Reply #18: Sounds like something Cheney would and did say.

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It's a dangerous and stupid rhetoric when applied to any situation.

This guy should have the option to change his mind.

As the facts change the course of action should be evaluated and change. Unless of course you are neferious person who is willing to have people killed for making the wrong decision even though they later changed their mind - an army leader sending soldiers to their death perhaps with gulp *patriotic* morals that justify making others dies for their(the leaders) overblown patriotic beliefs, perhaps. ewww.