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The former top aide to Donald Rumsfeld seeks to explain major discrepancies in his statements.
  • Shooter's intelligence...

    ... is not defined by whether he believes his arguments. He does not, at least not all of them. It is defined by the best counter argument he can find to oppose what he reads here, independent of whether it is true or not. These arguments tend to come from RWA pages with some personal interpretation. So I think the apparent intelligence of his posts is an indication of how successful the RWAs are at countering reality. Thus his visits here are useful; who wants to spend time visiting the RWA sites? Sometimes it is necessary to ask him a question, but usually it is clear what they are thinking.