Tony Snow's Remarks

Press Secretary Tony Snow had an interesting exchange with NBC journalist David Gregory. Here are some of Snow's statements:

"There have been some in the Democratic Party who have argued against the Patriot Act, against the terror surveillance program, against Guantanamo. In other words, there are some people who say that we shouldn't fight the war, we should not detain -- we shouldn't apprehend al Qaeda, we shouldn't detain al Qaeda, we shouldn't question al Qaeda, and we shouldn't listen to al Qaeda. In other words, they're all for winning the war on terror, but they're all against -- they're against providing the tools for winning that war.

"And we think it's a perfect opportunity for Democratic leaders to say, no, we are serious about winning the war. We have now reiterated some of the basic precepts of administration policy and also the policy put together by generals over the months of the engagement in Iraq. And we look forward to working with members of Congress to figure out how best to prevent terrorists from coming here, but, more importantly, how to defeat terrorism.

"Finally, one other point, which is, there is a reiteration of a call to replace or have Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld stand down. The President strongly supports the Defense Secretary. It's not going to happen. Creating Don Rumsfeld as a boogeyman may make for good politics, but would make for a lousy strategy at this time. And, furthermore, if you listen to the speech that Secretary Rumsfeld gave last week, it was not only thoughtful, but comprehensive about trying to frame the ongoing war against terror, and also the war going on in Iraq and Afghanistan.

"So this, again, is something that the President would love to see members of both Houses of Congress returning to that sense of cooperation we had after September 11th, where the real goal was not to try to hand out pink slips at the Pentagon, but instead to win the war on terror in a way that is going to make not only America safer, but also the rest of the world safer so that democracy can take firm root throughout the globe."

Tony Snow didn't come right out and say it, but basically claimed that Democrats were for and against the war on terror, which basically makes them wishy washy indecisive idiots. What Tony Snow and the other imbeciles in Washington fail to see it seems is the reasoning why many Democrats reject the Patriot Act, NSA, and Guantanamo. Their NSA Wiretapping Program is against the Constitution. Portions of the Patriot Act infringe on people's rights. Democrats are attempting to balance liberty and security, whereas Tony Snow and others believe the only way to ensure liberty is by giving it up in the name of security and if one disagrees with this notion, then that person is somehow anti-liberty.

I highly doubt it'll happen, but I don't see why Democrats attempt to turn the tables back around and alter the mood a bit by taking what Snow and others like him just said and blasting those statements as a War on Freedom. It seems that everything the Neo-Conservatives do is in the name of the "War on Terror" and national security. Instead of trying to beat them at their own game, when Republicans will probably get the best of them through arguments such as Snow's, I say they change the game completely and beat the Republicans at one that they've devised and know they can win. The only problem with this would be the fact that the Neo-Conservatives have driven the "War on Terror" and security lingo deep into our noggin's for going on five years now, so it wouldn't be easy for Democrats to alter the terminology and start from scratch, especially with elections in November. But, if they took and ran with it for the '08 elections, then it could be more feasible.

Link:

http://www.infowars.com/articles/media/newsman_tony_snow_dont_point_your_finger_at_me.htm