Tony Snow: "The alternative to war is not peace..."

[sabra]

http://www.swamppolitics.com/news/politics/blog/2007/07/white_house_alternative_to_war.html#more

"The alternative to war is not peace, in this case," Tony Snow, the White House press secretary, said today.

The case which Snow speaks of is the current deployment of US forces in Iraq, and the Bush administration's insistence that the military be given more time to prove that the "surge" of forces which the president announced in January and is now fully deployed can work.

The alternative to that deployment, at the moment, Snow suggests, is "cataclysmic" violence.

The White House press secretary also ran into a buzz saw when he was asked today, in the debut of a new press briefing room, if the American people should conclude from this war debate and defection of Republicans that the White House is isolated.

"No more than I look at you," Snow told the reporter from CBS News who had asked the question, "and think that people think you're focused on defeat."

[mmonk]

1. Orwell has a new line.

[SoonerPride]

3. beat me. damn.

[SoonerPride]

2. "We have always been at war with Oceania."

It would be funny if it wasn't so fucking insane.

[mod mom]

4. I don't recall Iraq embroiled in "cataclysmic" violence" before bu$h's war.

[whathappened]

5. ya right

give dimson more time , bs , send his ass packing right over to iraq so he can watch first hand his progress like back when the commaders were on top of the hill watching the fight going on just out of reach of the cannons