Let’s not quibble
NPR : Senate Panel: No Saddam-Qaida Ties Before War:
There is no evidence that Saddam Hussein had any relationship with the late terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi or with al-Qaida, the Senate Intelligence Committee says in a new report.
Some say that this means we entered a war unneccessarily, others believe that we eventually would have gone to war with Iraq anyways. What is not in dispute, is that Bush insisted that our reasons for invading Iraq after 9/11 was Hussein’s threat to the US, via its connections with with al-Qaida and ownership of WMDs. This report mimics others from before the war by intelligence offices. When confronted with questions about this decision;
White House spokesman Tony Snow dismissed the report, saying, “We’ll let people quibble over three years ago.”
Quibble?! To quibble means “to evade the truth or importance of an issue by raising trivial distinctions and objections.” This means that the Press Secretary of the White House considers the reasoning behind going to war or not going to war, between the deaths of young Americans and children of Iraq, as a “trivial distinction”
Whether you agree or disagree with the war, the rhetoric of this administration shows either a dangerous ignorance or callous disregard for the people who are truly fighting this war.
[tags] tony snow, politics, iraq war [/tags]
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