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Donald Rumsfeld Takes Jon Stewart to School Over Iraq War

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The takeaway from this interview is that Jon Stewart is really upset that while the administration obviously deliberated at great length behind the scenes, they did not hem and haw over whether or not to go to war with Iraq in public. And at the very end of the interview, “The “Daily Show” host sure doesn’t want to hear or acknowledge how close Saddam was to reconsituting his WMD program — this monster of a man determined to have and willing to use chemical and biological weapons.

Stewart does what he can to press his point of view, but for the most part he’s stuck on stupid and arguing with the facts. To suggest that it would’ve been a good idea for an adminstration to publicly express doubts about the reasons behind a war or over the outcome is beyond absurd, and to paper over the fact, as though it doesn’t matter, that Saddam was never far away from being a chemical or biological menace is equally absurd.

Something Rumsfeld doesn’t touch upon that Stewart would also have a hard time wrist-flicking is that under a very real threat of death, the Iraqi people themselves came out to vote in favor of self-determination and for the war. At that point the Iraq War became their war as much as ours and the United States had a moral obligation to ensure we protected the millions who bravely and publicly sided with us on that day. Unless it’s the number of dead, war critics like Stewart never talk about the will of the Iraqi people to be free or their willingness to fight and die for that freedom. Who is Jon Stewart or anyone to say the war wasn’t worth it or didn’t make the world a better place? 25 million people obviously disagree and their steady travels to the voting booths in the years since prove it.

There’s something a little off about those who only find the Iraqi dead useful to their argument and ignore the living.

Never forget that the Iraqi people chose freedom over opression and had the anti-war monsters had their way, we would’ve abandoned those innocents to the holocaust of a terrorist/death squad meat grinder. Instead we chose, at a terrible cost, to stand and fight. And those who fought were Americans from every walk of life who had volunteered to run towards danger when everyone else ran away and to risk their lives for those they had never met. In the end, as messy and as costly as it was, the liberation of 25 million people was a selfless and noble act.

Stewart does deserve credit for two things. First, he let’s Rumsfeld have his say. Second, while the full interview wasn’t broadcast (which wouldn’t have been practical), he did release the full interiew online.

You can watch the full interview here.


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