In yet another farcical and blatantly ignorant editorial (“Bush’s speech got tone right, not facts”, 12/21/05) the Minneapolis StarTribune once again showed the true stripes of the far left.  In the editorial, the newspaper once again slammed the President, this time for the content of his Sunday night Oval Office speech.  The sub-headline of the editorial was “His address was full of dissembling, truculence, and spin”.  I doubt that the editor even knows the definition of the word dissemble.  The word is defined by Random House as “to give a false appearance to; conceal the real nature of”.  If the editor knew the meaning of the word, he or she wouldn’t have used it in this context, because this, in fact, is exactly what the newspaper tried to do in its editorial.  Here are a few examples.

“…Bush said that Saddam Hussein had "blocked the work of U.N. weapons inspectors." Actually he tried and failed.”

“Bush also said that Iraq had "defied" U.N. Security Council resolutions. Indeed it had, but that same Security Council refused to accept U.S. intelligence and wanted to try resolving the issue peacefully by putting more pressure on Saddam.”

“Bush also said that Saddam ‘sponsored terrorism.’ Not for years he hadn't, other than to provide stipends for the families of suicide bombers attacking Israel. That's dastardly, but it doesn't rise to the level of justifying an invasion.”

Okay, think about this. 

The President stated that Saddam had blocked the work of U.N. weapons inspectors.  The paper says that was true but then minimizes the fact on the basis that the attempt failed (at least in the opinion of the newspaper).  Who is dissembling here?

The President states that Iraq had defied U.N. Security Council resolutions.  The newspaper agrees but minimizes the significance of that fact because the Security Council disagreed with American plans to resolve the issue.  Who is dissembling here?

The President states that Saddam sponsored terrorism.  The StarTribune agrees but minimizes it twice; first by saying that it hadn’t done so for years (in its opinion), and then by saying that paying stipends to families of suicide bombers is a minimal thing.

And the StarTribune states that the President was dissembling??? 

The Minneapolis StarTribune has never had a conscience.  It is a mouthpiece for the far left.  It will spin any issue in favor of the left, even if it means the total destruction of our nation.  Or, maybe especially if it means the total destruction of our nation.