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14 June 2003: "Strategic ambiguity"

Recently, I trotted out an observation that various members of the Bush administration have the knack of making statements which are not actually false, but which are designed to lead the listener to read too much into them. Unfortunately, I did not make this observation in this blog, but on the 3WA discussion boards. But it's all rather academic, since Spinsanity does a better job of it than I could, giving an excellent dissection of this practice in "The strategically ambiguous George W. Bush." Go read.

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