{"id":7868,"date":"2006-07-06T14:15:37","date_gmt":"2006-07-06T18:15:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/archives\/7868.html"},"modified":"2006-07-06T14:15:37","modified_gmt":"2006-07-06T18:15:37","slug":"its-only-world-war-iii-when-the-bush-gang-says-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/its-only-world-war-iii-when-the-bush-gang-says-so\/","title":{"rendered":"It’s only World War III when the Bush gang says so"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s [tag]White House[\/tag] press briefing<\/a> was dominated by questions about North Korea’s missile test launch this week, and reporters quizzed [tag]Tony Snow[\/tag] about whether a U.S. military response is under consideration. Snow dismissed the speculation.<\/p>\n

“The United States has…robust and mobile military capabilities. But again, I want to steer you away. There are attempts to try to describe this almost in [tag]breathless[\/tag] [tag]World War III[\/tag] terms. This is not such a situation.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Yes, “breathless” rhetoric about [tag]WWIII[\/tag] is clearly inappropriate. After all, it’s only an axis-of-evil country with a growing nuclear program testing missiles in defiance of the world.<\/p>\n

When should<\/i> people use “breathless World War III terms”? Whenever Bush says it’s acceptable. For example, the [tag]president[\/tag] has already described [tag]9\/11[\/tag]<\/a> in his way: “I believe that [when passengers retook United Flight 93 it] was the first counterattack of World War III.”<\/p>\n

And as it turns out, [tag]Iraq[\/tag] qualifies for the label, too. Last month, Bush endorsed<\/a> Osama bin Laden’s assertion that “this Third World War is raging” in Iraq.<\/p>\n

In fact, when it comes to the wars Bush wanted<\/i> to fight, the “terms” couldn’t be “breathless” enough<\/a>.
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A few years ago, the administration was using breathless terms to describe Iraq. “We cannot wait for the final proof — the smoking gun — that could come in the form of a mushroom cloud,” Bush said then. The president said sanctions and isolation had been a failure, while Vice President Cheney described the U.N. Security Council’s procedures as “a prescription for perpetual disunity and obstructionism.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And now, just because a nuclear-armed madman is launching missiles is no reason for anyone to go around using irresponsible [tag]rhetoric[\/tag]. That’s the White House’s job.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday’s [tag]White House[\/tag] press briefing was dominated by questions about North Korea’s missile test launch this week, and reporters quizzed [tag]Tony Snow[\/tag] about whether a U.S. military response is under consideration. Snow dismissed the speculation. “The United States has…robust and mobile military capabilities. But again, I want to steer you away. There are attempts to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7868","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7868\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}