This just in, Tony Snow is as dumbfounded as the entire White House
White House press secretary Tony Snow questioned the accuracy of the quotes in a report in the upcoming January issue of Vanity Fair that featured three former proponents of the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq who are now critics of the war. "If the quotes are accurate, it means that they're at war with the advice that they gave some time ago," Snow said.
Snow said the president just shrugged off an editorial by the Military Times Media Group calling for Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. In an unusually lengthy rebuke of an editorial, he argued that the editorial is a "shabby piece of work" that quotes military leaders out of context. He also noted that although the group publishes the Army Times and other military-oriented periodicals, it is a subsidiary of the Gannett Co. and not a military publication.
Bush "understands what editorial writers sometimes do, and in this case, they're grandstanding," Snow said. "The notion that somehow, as the editorial says, that this is not intended to influence the elections — you've got to be kidding me. I mean, if they didn't want it to influence the elections, they could have published it Wednesday."
Snow denied that Sunday's expected verdict against former Iraqi leader
Saddam Hussein' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> Saddam Hussein was tied to the election. He said Iraq's judiciary is completely independent.
"Are you telling me that in Iraq, that they're sitting around — I'm sorry, that the Iraqi judicial system is coming up with an October surprise?" Snow said, then he corrected his calendar reading. "A November surprise? Man, that's — wow."
Snow said the president just shrugged off an editorial by the Military Times Media Group calling for Bush to fire Defense Secretary Donald H. Rumsfeld. In an unusually lengthy rebuke of an editorial, he argued that the editorial is a "shabby piece of work" that quotes military leaders out of context. He also noted that although the group publishes the Army Times and other military-oriented periodicals, it is a subsidiary of the Gannett Co. and not a military publication.
Bush "understands what editorial writers sometimes do, and in this case, they're grandstanding," Snow said. "The notion that somehow, as the editorial says, that this is not intended to influence the elections — you've got to be kidding me. I mean, if they didn't want it to influence the elections, they could have published it Wednesday."
Snow denied that Sunday's expected verdict against former Iraqi leader
Saddam Hussein' name=c1> SEARCHNews News Photos Images Web' name=c3> Saddam Hussein was tied to the election. He said Iraq's judiciary is completely independent.
"Are you telling me that in Iraq, that they're sitting around — I'm sorry, that the Iraqi judicial system is coming up with an October surprise?" Snow said, then he corrected his calendar reading. "A November surprise? Man, that's — wow."
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