“Paul Waldman, author of several books on the press and public opinion, suggested the Bush administration might be guilty of something called ‘enthymematic argumentation.’ In a Washington Post opinion piece on September 28, 2003, Waldman argued, ‘in an enthymeme, the speaker builds an argument with one element removed, leading listeners to fill in the missing piece.’ Each time the Bush administration coupled Iraq and September 11, this theory goes, the American people made the direct connection on their own. ‘We were attacked on Sept. 11, so we went to war against Iraq. The missing piece of the argument–*Saddam was involved in 9/11*–didn’t have to be said aloud for those listening to assimilate its message.’ ”
– Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Page 20