Bad Logic
We're taking the fight to those who attacked us and to those who share their murderous vision for future attacks....
...Yet the terrorists have made it clear that Iraq is the central front in their war against humanity, so we must recognize Iraq is the central front in the war on terror.
- George W. Bush, December 14th 2005
Bad Logic is a logically fallacious technique that is used to persuade the audience by drawing false conclusions from a variety of premises. George Bush made a speech at Park Hyatt (Pennsylvania) in order to persuade the people to support his actions in Iraq. In his speech, however, he uses horrible logic to achieve his goal. By stating that the United States is “taking the fight to those [Muslims] who attacked [them]”, Bush tries to justify his violent acts committed out of hatred in Iraq. However, there is a flaw even in this statement itself, as he is making a generalization against all Muslims that they are the ones who started the violence, when in reality it is just a small group of Muslims who attacked the Twin Towers in 2001. Shortly after this, George Bush also argues that because the terrorists have Iraq as their central front in their war against humanity, the United States “must recognize Iraq is the central front in the war on terror.” In essence, George Bush’s argument in this speech states that the brutal, violent things he did in Iraq are justified because Muslim terrorists primarily live there. This is absolutely horrific and flawed because the Iraq War led to the deaths of so many Muslim civilians who had nothing to do with the conflict between Americans and Terrorists of Islam.
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