Chapter 13: Advanced Argument
Lab Activity 63: Fallacies That Oversimplify the Issues
 
Objective
To identify fallacies that oversimplify the issue.

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      6. George W. Bush, the 43rd President of the United States, ordered the invasion of Iraq in 2003 to complete his father's goal in the Gulf War of removing Saddam Hussein from power.  

 
 
 
      7. Either we cut the social programs or we live with a huge federal deficit and we cannot afford a huge federal deficit.  

 
 
 
      8. In 2005, Moveon.org created an advertisement to run in the New York Times that stated, "First George Bush said Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction and a 'mushroom cloud' was imminent. Now, he's claiming something equally outrageous: a phony social security crisis."  

 
 
 
      9. Congresswoman Lorraine Shindler must vote for the appropriation bill that will ensure much needed road work in our district or she will betray her campaign promises.  

 
 
 
      10. In a 2002 column that appeared in National Review Online, Ron Unz, then chairman of English for the Children, stated, "While most Americans have been transfixed by the terrifying prospect of massive deaths from anthrax or suicide bombers, a few in our society fear an even greater horror: the fanatic defenders of Spanish-almost-always instruction see their doom in an 'English' initiative heading toward the November 2002 Massachusetts ballot."  

 
 
 





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