The question was , What does the lie turn in to after repeated innocently? If you knowingly told me a lie as fact and knew it to be a lie and I repeated it thinking it to be true...
What did your lie become once I told it?
Originally Posted by WTF
for a lie to be a lie, it must start as a lie, it always is a lie if it begins as a lie, but if you are an innocent repeater of a lie you aren't a liar, the originator of the lie is the liar.
in Bush's case, WMD did not start as a lie, it started as an assessment believed by assessors the world over. Therefore it never was a lie. It was merely an incorrect assessment. Therefore no repeating of it was the repeating of a lie, it was an acceptance of and a repeating of a mistaken assessment.
so please don't keep mixing apples and oranges as is your wont.