You gotta love the spin that Bob Geiger put in this post regarding a quote from senator John Warner. Bob says
Senator John Warner (R-VA) made that observation in a November 15 meeting of the Senate Armed Services Committee, which he chairs, when he noted that Sunday would mark the day when U.S. involvement in Iraq exceeded that of World War II.
What is wrong with this?
There is a huge difference between what the senator said and what Bob says via his post title. The senator said ‘involvement’, Bob said ‘war’. Naturally Bob seems to think that involvement is the same as war, which it clearly isn’t. The ‘war’ with Iraq ended years ago, while the involvement hasn’t yet ended. Yes people are still fighting and dying, but the war isn’t with Iraq, it is with terrorists who happen to be in Iraq.
To put this in perspective, to use Bob’s grouping of these two terms, he would be saying that we are still at war with Germany after 50 years. Why? Well, we are still there aren’t we? We still have military bases there and have since WWII ended. No, we are not fighting and soldiers are not dying, but we are there and involved are we not? What about Korea? Hey, technically we are still at war with them even though there is no fighting (at the moment).
Spin is one thing, but completely changing the context of what someone says is completely different.
