Mushroom Clouding the Issue

Tim Russert is a hostile douchebag enema bag, a shill for the Right, and a lousy interviewer. He sound more like a prosecutor than a journalist. He steps on the answers of his target not letting them finish, he interrupts - throwing people off their stride.

I like Rahm Emanuel from what I've seen of him. A decent stand up guy. But now that he is DCCC chairman he needs to take a course in debate. In this morning's interview on Meatgrinder Press, he was on the defensive. It was painful to watch.

For example, when the question was asked, "Now that we know there aren't WMD's in Iraq would you have voted for the War?"

First of all this is total tripe. Has anyone in DC or the News read the IRAQ WAR RESOLUTION?
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Whereas Iraq both poses a continuing threat to the national security of the United States and international peace and security in the Persian Gulf region and remains in material and unacceptable breach of its international obligations by, among other things, continuing to possess and develop a significant chemical and biological weapons capability, actively seeking a nuclear weapons capability, and supporting and harboring terrorist organizations; Whereas Iraq persists in violating resolution of the United Nations Security Council by continuing to engage in brutal repression of its civilian population thereby threatening international peace and security in the region, by refusing to release, repatriate, or account for non-Iraqi citizens wrongfully detained by Iraq, including an American serviceman, and by failing to return property wrongfully seized by Iraq from Kuwait;

If you take everything away everything that we know today you are left with:

Iraq persists in violating resolution of the United Nations Security Council by continuing to engage in brutal repression of its civilian population

and

failing to return property wrongfully seized by Iraq from Kuwait;

Would that been enough reason to go to War with it's associated costs? Basically Congress authorized the President to go to war if there were WMD's and ties to the 9/11 terrorist attack. It is no wonder that this is marketing the White House chose to further it ambitions.

So the question, "Would you vote for the war today," is not an honest question but a mouthful of rhetoric designed to cloud the issue. I just wish for once that someone would point that out...

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