Alex
Yes I have waded through the full transcript however there is a abridged version at the top of the website,
http://www.davekopel.org/terror/59Deceits.pdf
I couldn't care less about where he was born, there are much greater untruths which build a picture and influence people.
I'm more concerned about the misrepresentations about:
The validity of the US elections,
Bush sending the Saudi's home,
The Sausdi influence over US policy,
The perception that Afganistan was about oil pipelines,
The perception that Iraq was some sort of Utopia under Saddam
It can paint a distorted picture that many people will swallow as fact, you really have to judge it by its motives, absolutely he is entitled to his opinion but people shouldn't assume that its factual and therefore unquestionable.
As Richard Carlton of 60 minutes fame is quoted as saying "Its pure propaganda and I love it"
Interestingly the best rebuttal also comes from Dave Kopel. He says
"There are lots of good reasons why people have chosen to vote
against (or for) the re-election of George Bush. And there are
lots of good reasons why patriotic Americans have decided to
oppose (or support) the war in Iraq. One thing that all the good
reasons have in common is that they are based on facts. In a
democracy, we should try to convince our fellow citizens with
facts and logical reasoning. To manipulate people with frauds
and propaganda is to attack democracy itself."
Good enough for me.