July 28, 2004
Michael Moore was on The O’Reilly Factor last night, and asked Bill the following question (the quote is from memory. If anyone has a link to a transcript, please send it to me):
“Bush sent children to die in Iraq. Would you send your child to die in Iraq?”
Let’s count all the false assumptions in this question.
- Soldiers aren’t children. They’re adults.
- The soldiers aren’t sent by Bush, by their parents, or by anyone else. The draft in this country was abolished decades ago. Acting as adults, they bravely chose to risk their lives for the good of our country.
- Their purpose in going to Iraq was not to die, and the vast majority did not do so. (900 killed in action out of 150,000 soldiers).
So the correct answer is, “The question is based on false assumptions.”
Moore asked O’Reilly another question:
“Since Hussein had no WMDs, what did our 900 soldiers die for?”
I would respond:
- To keep Hussein from getting WMD and giving them to terrorists, just as we always stated. We know Hussein had WMD in the 90’s—the UN documented them. He could easily obtain them again. He’d used them on his own people. He was financially rewarding the families of terrorists who killed civilians in Israel. Anyone arguing that Hussein would never do such a thing, is kidding themselves, and risking leaving the United States open to terrorist attack.
and…
- To take the war on terrorists to the doorstep of the terrorists—which we have done. Those who use terrorism are busy fighting our soldiers in Iraq, rather than killing our civilians here at home.
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