GOP Sen. Smith Friday: Iraq "May Even Be Criminal"...

Editor and Publisher December 11, 2006 11:14 PM

White House Press Secretary Tony Snow held his first briefing for reporters today since Gordon Smith, the formerly pro-war Republican senator from Oregon, gave a speech in Congress attacking the U.S. handling of the conflict in Iraq, using words like "criminal" and "absurd" and "immoral." Naturally reporters asked Snow about this, as well as other war-related topics.

Referring to Sen. Smith's charges, Snow said that it was the killing of U.S. soldiers, not the conduct of the war itself, that was "immoral." He also responded to Smith's claim that the Americans were getting "blown up," by urging, "do not assume that people are simply being blown up. They are on missions."

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