Breivik's second, equally fallacious claim is that Islam's growth in the West has been encouraged by liberal elites as a means to destroy traditional Christian culture.

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"It's a fallacious approach to the stimulus bill to accelerate the tax cuts that were passed last year, " Daschle argued Sunday.

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But the remarks also fed an antiwar Democratic mythology evident in the fallacious premise of Senator Levin's question.

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