Rove Repeats Claim That Dems Rushed Bush Into War In 2002

Washington Post:

Former White House aide Karl Rove said yesterday it was Congress, not President Bush, who wanted to rush a vote on the looming war in Iraq in the fall of 2002, a version of events disputed by leading congressional Democrats and even some former Rove colleagues.

Rove said that the administration did not want lawmakers to vote on a resolution authorizing the use of force against Iraq that soon because it would "make things move too fast," before Bush could line up international allies, and politicize the issue ahead of midterm elections. But Democrats and some Republicans involved with the issue at the time said yesterday that Bush wanted a quick vote.

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Comments

[Marlowe22]

We who care about this country, must never let another Republican hold office again. Republicans care only about enriching themselves and their friends. Democrats, at least, try to initiate policies that help people. Republicans, I believe, are deliberately trying to destroy the middle and working classes to get all the wealth of the country themselves. We must vote them out for good!

[Marlowe22]

I don't care what he says. He's a liar.

[Marlowe22]

This guy, Rove, is nuts! He is the worst liar and filthy trickster. He has no shame. He needs to be wiped away like a smear of sh-t. What has this country come to? These Republicans will do or say ANYTHING to keep power. Yikes, what next?

[frappe]

Rove...Wha­t a load of crap.

[ROBOT8]

KARL ROVE = BUSH'S EVA BRAUN! BRINGIN ZEE HERE MINE SHEPARD MINE LITTLE MAN LIEBSHUN.
Naturally the common people don't want war; neither in Russia, nor in England, nor in America, nor in Germany. That is understood. But after all, it is the leaders of the country who determine policy, and it is always a simple matter to drag the people along, whether it is a democracy, or a fascist dictatorship, or a parliament, or a communist dictatorship. Voice or no voice, the people can always be brought to the bidding of the leaders. That is easy. All you have to do is to tell them they are being attacked, and denounce the pacifists for lack of patriotism and exposing the country to danger. It works the same in any country."
--Hermann Goering

[chimpette]

Rove, thanks to the internet(s) which you and your evil ilk have not been able to reign in yet, these types of headlines indicated above just makes our eyes roll with contempt. This b**sh**t just goes on and on....

And I have to wonder Arianna, how are you funded? I don't trust you either.

Then again, aren't you all just pieces on the chessboard of power?

[darker]

K. Rove uses the most obvious TACTIC!
If you REPEAT A LIE enough times, people will believe it's true!!
He's an ad-man: PROFESSIONAL L-I-A-R.
He repeats, repeats just like TV ads, endlessly.

[geneven]

My impression, which has been reinforced every time I've tuned in, is that Fox News is a propaganda organ something like Communist-era Izvestia.

Why does HP promote its shows? Maybe HP now thinks that Fox News is fair and balanced? There must be some reason for HP's endorsement of Fox News...

[neogejo]

Rove has become transparent. Even with all the historical proof of what actually ocurred, he continues to believe that he can rewrite history.
He thinks that if he tells the lie over and over again, it will become the truth. This is a strategy that he has used before to confuse us. But, we know better now. The American public is wise to this tactic. And, we are not buying it Karl.
This administration is desperate. They are falling back on tricks that have already been exposed. Pathetic.
Go sell your wares somewhere else, Karl. We ain't buyin' it.

[whizkid]

Thanks to the Rightwing media 40% of our public think somebody named Clinton is president to help refocus the failures of W the past 7 years.
20% think Hillary is already our president.
(Our people are that stupid).

Rove this week was playing this card with his remarks as regard the war.

Soon they will try to have our people believe 9/11 occured under a Clinton.

[Maxbyte]

They say memory is the second thing to go. Poor Karl. He really is a ba**ard. Really.

Karl is the bun a traveling salesman put in his Mom's oven when she was managing a "gift shop". Was it ever a gift shop! Her husband was Louis Claude Rove, Jr. and he allowed Karl to share the family name.

This bit of genealogy is not the only thing that bugs Karl to this very day. When he was nine years old, for example, and "supported" Richard Nixon over JFK, he became annoyed with a girl in his class who didn't think much of Nixon.

So Karl, being the genius he is, picked a fight with the girl. The girl gave him a good thumping and waited to find out if Karl wanted another round. He didn't.

Thenceforth, Karl wore glasses on the theory that not even a girl would hit someone wearing glasses.

So now the poor ba**ard - having lost his memory long ago - wants to be the next Joanne Murray Rowling [J.K. Rowling]. He wants his first Masterpiece to be about a stumble-bum, a witch, an assassin, and a bunch of people who refuse to believe his yarns.

Karl doesn't have a title for it yet, but the publisher, Cheney Ink, Inc., has suggested "I'm Not A Crook!"

The first problem with that title is that Art Buchwald used it to write about Nixon. The second problem is that Buchwald was funny, but Karl isn't. And, the third and most serious problem is that Karl has already made a couple of silk purses out of George "A Pig's Ear" Bush and there isn't enough of him left to make a third.

[bmermaid]

Where's a muzzle when you need one? I'm sick of the crap he pushes.

[PaxChristi]

That darn Republican Congress forcing our President into a preemptive war, I'll just bet it was Congress that made up all those false reports of yellow cake and WMD's too.

Then the Republican Congress turned on our President and dumped Iraq in his lap after screwing things up. And Congress being controlled by members of his own party, those backstabbers!

Making things even worse... they gave the VP and President's good buddy's all those no bid war contracts to get rich on, that darn Republican Congress!

Our poor Republican President.

[714Day]

If this guy can do anything, he can spin like a top.

[imsosure]

Proving Rove with anymore attention is like playing into a self defeatist strategy sure to cause more harm than good. I suggest we either imprison this mongrel or stop giving him space to further distort and misrepresent. You know in other words stop all Rove reporting and let him just fade away into oblivion like a stale noxious windbag that he is. No one wants him around anymore and all he does is draw attention away from the things that do matter with his maniacal dribble that spews out of his distorted brain. Let’s boycott this jerk and get on worth things we can n do something about. If having him locked up is not happening then let’s just ignore this fool.

Acknowledging his comments is just perpetuating a bad dream, it doesn’t solve or resolve anything.