Tony "Snow Job" Snow Tells Another Whopper

December 18th, 2006

Washington, D.C. - White House Press Secretary Tony Snow said Monday (with a straight face) that no "big disagreement" exists between President Bush and Colin Powell, despite Powell's comments Sunday that labeled Iraq a 'civil war' and said the US is losing there.

Former Secretary of State Powell said on on CBS's "Face the Nation," that the "The United States is losing the war in Iraq."

"That's his characterization of the situation," Snow told reporters Monday, adding that Powell and the president agree on the goals a new Iraq strategy must pursue.

"He also made it clear that, in his view, that the proper -- that he suspected that the president was going to pursue a strategy that would, in fact, attack the kinds of problems that we're discussing -- political reconciliation, building capability among the Iraqis, the recognition that the Iraqis, themselves, ultimately had to have responsibility for taking care of things, and that, again, whatever you did, you had to make sure that the military had a clear mission. I don't see any big disagreement."

Snow also downplayed Powell's description of the situation as a "civil war," a label that the administration has repeatedly rejected.