NO QUESTION BUT THAT RUMSPEAK IS PROLIFERATING


What's with all the "but that"s?


"There's no question but that Germany is an important contributor in the global war on terrorism. "
- Rummy (not Rumi)

"There’s no question but that the strike on that leadership headquarters
was successful."
- Rummy

""There is no question
but that regime is not going to be there in the future."
- Rummy

"“The read we get on the people of Iraq is there’s no question but that they want to get rid of Saddam Hussein."
- Dick Cheney

There is no question but that we are very close to the end."
-Colin Powell

"There is no question but that anyone who looks at the threat matrix every day knows that there are threats all over the world..."
-Rummy

"There's no question but that you have Saddam Hussein who's been there and has not responded to political diplomacy... "
-Rummy

"there's no question
but that there are risks to acting, and they're real risks..."
-Rummy


...and then there is the use of nexus. Another day perhaps...

equivocation

\E*quiv`o*ca"tion\, n. The use of expressions susceptible of a double signification, with a purpose to mislead.

There being no room for equivocations, there is no need of distinctions. --Locke.

Syn: Prevarication; ambiguity; shuffling; evasion; guibbling. See Equivocal, a., and Prevaricate, v. i.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.

equivocation

n 1: a statement that is not literally false but that cleverly avoids an unpleasant truth [syn: evasion] 2: intentionally vague or ambiguous [syn: prevarication, evasiveness] 3: deliberate vagueness or ambiguity [syn: evasiveness] 4: falsification by means of vague or ambiguous language [syn: tergiversation]

Source: WordNet ® 1.6, © 1997 Princeton University



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