From The Pajama Diaries 2011/04/18

Quotes from the AP report ElBaradei Suggests War Crimes Probe Of Bush Team.

The Iraq war taught him that “deliberate deception was not limited to small countries ruled by ruthless dictators,” ElBaradei writes in “The Age of Deception,” being published Tuesday by Henry Holt and Company.
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“I was aghast at what I was witnessing,” ElBaradei writes of the official U.S. attitude before the March 2003 invasion, which he calls “aggression where there was no imminent threat,” a war in which he accepts estimates that hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians were killed.

In such a case, he suggests, the World Court should be asked to rule on whether the war was illegal. And, if so, “should not the International Criminal Court investigate whether this constitutes a `war crime’ and determine who is accountable?”

In the video, Obama tries to explain the few available options to try to get gasoline prices under control.

I am trying to figure out if he could have recast this speech to take into account the prescription of my previous post about why we do not believe facts.

In other words, paradoxically, you don’t lead with the facts in order to convince. You lead with the values—so as to give the facts a fighting chance.

He did start out with the values of family and religion. At least Obama is recognizing his most important role as President – educating the voters