Clarifying arguments

So many charges and countercharges of who’s lying to whom, and who started it, and who noticed it first, that I love someone, like David Adesnik, who clears things up with a few ground rules and definitions…

OxBlog:
This argument does not, however, contradict my assertion below that if the Democrats are consciously lying about the origins of the war, then one may consider them unpatriotic. The right to change positions does not entail a right to lie in order to defend that change of positions.

One may always change one’s mind. That’s part of living in a democracy — part of life. It’s saying that you never believed otherwise that’s wrong.

So what’s wrong here? The pandering? The effect on the troops? Or the dishonesty?

I’ll take “dishonesty” for $200, Alex…