Tony Snow: Are War Critics in Congress Aiding Al-Qaeda?

[RamboLiberal]

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At his White House briefing today, Press Secretary Tony Snow faced a grilling over the Democrats' opposition to the president's troop escalation. He labeled Sen. Hillary Clinton's backing for a "cap" on troops in Iraq at the current 130,000 as "extreme."

But he also suggested that war opponents in congress need to consider what message they are sending in favoring a resolution or legislation that opposes the president's "surge"-- saying it was "worth asking" the question of whether they might sending a message to al-Qaeda. The implication was that their opposition could be seen as giving al-Qaeda a green light to expand their actions.

Early in the briefing, Snow hit congressional moves to halt the buildup, saying this "raises the question, in terms of the Iraqis, will they take us at our word when we say we support them? And will it, in fact, make it easier for suitors, whether they be Iranians or al-Qaeda members to say, well, look, you can count on us, we're going to be around? That is not a flip concern. It is something that you have to take into account."

He raised the al-Qaeda issue again a little later. "It's probably worth asking," Snow said, "what message does Congress intend to give, and who does it think the audience is? Is the audience merely the President? Is it the voting American public? Or in an age of instant communication, is it also al Qaeda? Is it Iraq? Is it players in Iraq? Is it U.S. troops? Is it people in the Gulf who want to understand whether the United States is, in fact, a partner upon whom they can depend for security even in trying times?

"All those are questions that deserve to be raised. I don't think there are illegitimate questions. And all I'm saying is that those are things that members ought to take into consideration."

STFU Snow! Trying to play that dissenters are terrorists card again!

[Straight Shooter]

1. Osama loves Tony. n/t

[Solly Mack]

2. Good thing America is the land of the free

LMAO


In Bush's America -

You're free as long as you never dissent, I guess

[yellerpup]

3. Oh yeah? The WH needs to consider the Cheneyesque message it's sending

to the voters in this country. What message does the administration give when it says F*** you to Americans who voted for CHANGE?

[fasttense]

4. No Snow, it is called common sense.

Snow and the bushes are Aiding Al-Qaeda. What hasn't bush done that Bin Laden wanted done? He got us out of the bases in Saudi, he made the general public fearful, he wasted our money on a useless war, he never caught Bin Laden. What more could Bin Laden want?

[54anickel]

50. Don't forget the biggest favor Shrub gave him - he got rid of Saddam. And if Dipshit

doesn't think the US getting mired in the Iraq quagmire doesn't play into Al-Qaeda's hands he's a damned fool...wait, never mind. I'm sure OBL couldn't be more pleased with how things are going.

[Double T]

5. "If you're NOT with 'US', YOU are against 'US'".............

does NOT work anymore!!!!

[BlueJac]

6. Tony Snow is a lapdog for GW.......

and a joke!

[Sequoia]

7. Look here Frankenstein, just crawl back to your dank castle.

[Elwood P Dowd]

8. al Qaeda is only a small percentage of those fighting us in Iraq

Tony and the repukes are getting desperate and will say anything to cover for the chimp.

[Parche]

9. aiding?

Tony Snow has it all wrong, Democrats like and support the CIA.......err I mean Al-Kida

[LiberalFighter]

10. Does Tony Snow reject the U.S. Constitution?

Does Tony Snow believe the President should act as a Dictator?

Does Tony Snow believe the President should create the laws instead of Congress?

What message does Tony Snow think he is providing to al Qaeda? Is he telling them that his boss is an idiot? Maybe that he lies and can't be trusted?

What message does Tony Snow think he is providing to the world leaders? See above response.

[Rosa Luxemburg]

11. The voters want Tony Snow to hunt Bin Laden

Since Bush and cheney csan't find him it must be left to Tony snow. Who else can we ask?

[Supersedeas]

18. bin Laden is worth more alive than death...Snow cited more evidence of that

[tanyev]

12. Tony, your boss has done a bang-up job recruiting for al-Qaeda.

Take that into consideration.

[AX10]

13. Are conservative nuts like Tony Snow aiding the terrorists....

by staying in Iraq and neglecting the real war against the terrorists?

Yes.

[damntexdem]

14. No, the War in Iraq has greatly aided Al Qaida.

Dubya is the one aiding Al Qaida.

[AzDar]

15. Are they? I suppose we could ask Osama himself... if bush had caught him, of course.

[sakabatou]

16. Does Tony Snow hate the freedom of speech?

[rodeodance]

17. That all you got Tony. The people on onto your slime!

[specimenfred1984]

19. Snow needs to be tried for treason

He conspires daily to mislead the American public and to commit war.

[aquart]

21. Then we could turn him over to the Iraqis for hanging.

Because they do a heckuva job.

[UpInArms]

20. Snow is a hack whore that thinks he has

made a wonderful career move to being the spokesman for a known pathological liar and believes that this is going to look good on his resume.

I do so hope that he understands that resumes are unimportant when cell shopping at the Hague.

[bobthedrummer]

22. Why don't you go hunting with Cheney you lying accessory to war criminals. eom

[madeline_con]

23. What's with the veiled threats? Methinks the Repugs are

running scared, and whimpering like the girly men they are.

[NastyRiffraff]

24. Watch for it...

More and more, the RW is using the FACT of the Internet to stifle free speech:

"It's probably worth asking," Snow said, "what message does Congress intend to give, and who does it think the audience is? Is the audience merely the President? Is it the voting American public? Or in an age of instant communication, is it also al Qaeda?" (Emphasis mine)

In other words, since there's "instant communication" in this "age" anything you say may be suspect.

[Amonester]

25. Traitor Snow can't recall how much sh*t he put in his underwear

the day he "had" to fly over the green zone...

His cheneyousself's propaganda implies that his beloved lying-neocons-for-personal-gain don't encourage al Qaeda by sending them a constant "flow" of what they "consider" their owned cannon-fodder for them to snipe at whenever they feel like, instead of keeping them home to really secure the country...

War is Peace
Down is Up
Dictatorship is Democracy
Fascism is Capitalism

[Cha]

26. tony mcsnowjob is an al qaeda

lover. Any bush supporter has helped osama bin hiden tremendously by exponentially adding to their recruitment levels over the last 4 years with their misbegotten war on Iraq.

Blast that back in tony's fucked up face..fuck off tony, you fucking traitor.

[thecrow]

27. "Is it the voting American public? ", he asked.....

Uh, yeah. We voted the bastards out and now we're standing up and taking names; throwing Junior out with the dirty mess Congress republic's have made in the bathwater.

Remember us? The people of this country who DON'T BELIEVE YOU.
Now go away and think about it, Tony. Duhhhhhh

[M155Y_A1CH]

41. Drown it in a bathtub....

Your bathwater remark made me reflect on a point that Snowjob touched on....

Which Gulf is Tony refering to when he says:

"Is it people in the Gulf who want to understand whether the United States is, in fact, a partner upon whom they can depend for security even in trying times?"

Is this finally an acknowledgement of "trying times" for the victims of Katrina???

[Wwagsthedog]

28. The commies are coming!, The commies are coming! nt

[David Zephyr]

29. So Republican Senators Snowe and Hagel are helping Al-Qaeda?

Let's hope that the White House keeps up this shit.

[Az_lefty]

30. they might as well have Rush Limbaugh as Press Secretary...

total lying political hack! :puke:

[LynnTheDem]

31. Tony Snow; TRAITOR.

“To announce that there must be no criticism of the president, or that we are to stand by the president, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.”
-Theodore Roosevelt

[proust78]

32. The hard line is coming back

Last week we had the Pentagon attacking lawyers for representing detainees. Now the White House doesn't believe Congress should be allowed to have any opinion that Bush doesn't support.

Can we spread some of that democracy back here in the U.S.? I didn't think it was a finite resource.

[leesa]

33. How idiotic!

[BadGimp]

34. Assclown Award Nominee

[twenty4blackbirds]

35. 24B: Is wrong WH information aiding al-Qaeda?

Yes.

[WritersBlock]

36. Yo Snowjob - your dipshit boss is the one sending that particular message. n/t

[TomClash]

37. Another Snow Job - the shovel is working hard

No one is listening.

[pinniped]

38. This POS Snowjob is outdoing the last one.

* must shop at Turds-Я-Us.

[CJCRANE]

39. If every move the WH makes

is based on what Osama bin Laden thinks...then that means he is exerting control over them.

It's time to listen to the American people, Tony, not to bin Laden.

[smoogatz]

40. Someone should ask Snow why Bush is giving aid and comfort to Iran.

I mean, seriously--the Mullahs thank Allah for sending them George W Bush five times a day. He killed their bitterest enemy and dropped over 200 billion barrels of Iraqi oil into their laps, after all.

[HuffleClaw]

42. its one thing for rush and friends to play that game, but quite another

for an official white house spokesperson to do so. the entire press corps should DEMAND an apology.

[sarcasmo]

43. Kick. The stupidity of this administration amazes me every day.

[BeHereNow]

44. Have they no shame? Do they ACTUALLY believe that people still buy this shit?

Every thing they say is so clearly transparent in its
effort to silence we, the people, as they destroy this
country.

Snow is a traitor.
A paid shill, working for those who seek to destroy
the Constitution and democracy.

We aint buying it Mr. Snow.

BHN

[Seldona]

45. So the MAJORITY of Americans are helping Al Qaeda?

Never mind that him and his bosses are responsible for running the single largest terror training camp the world has ever seen, Iraq. How can someone as clueless as these people are be in charge?

[classysassy]

46. F.U. Snow Flakey

[Supersedeas]

47. and they wonder where Malaki picks up this rhetoric

[arewenotdemo]

48. "It's probably worth asking"

why none of the American war criminals in charge will ever face a public hanging, like, you know, that Iraqi guy.

[SemperEadem]

49. no one but a fool

allows spending of their money without putting a limit on what can be spent. Anyone with a brain and a sense of responsibility puts a cap on their spending. I certainly want the troop who are there to have the funding to buy armor plated vehicles and body armor--what I dont' want is our country handing other countries in the conflict regions a blank check to spend the money as they wish without them having to meet some serious criteria in order to get another one. That is what Clinton is talking about, not what Snow is spinning.

Mr. Snow needs to remember that before his boy stole the election and invaded a country that posed no threat to ours, the problem with al Qaida was not on the scale as it is now. His boy created this mess all on his own--it's not now those opposed to his tactics' problem to keep it going now that every malcontent in the middle east is rallying to the cause to repell american forces from the region. There needs to be a diplomatic solution for this, not a military one. The source of volunteer troops in this country is finite--and unless they're willing to institute a draft, they need to be working on negotiations and diplomacy, not sending more of the youth of our country to fight, and certainly not in handing the Afghanistans/Iraqis a blank check or giving them weapons. And believing that isn't empowering al Qaida--us sending more troops in is what empowers al Qaida because we're fighting against and endless supply of extremists who don't give a fuck and who have nothing to lose; they see glory in death. Americans hardly do and hardly ever will.

[Zorra]

51. Buffoon. Isn't that a great word to use to describe Tony Snow?

Buffoon...it's just so Tony.