Rove: "Congress Pushed Bush to War in Iraq Prematurely"
You are not going to believe this, well, actually you will... According to Karl Rove (on Charlie Rose), the Bush Administration did not want Congress to vote on the Iraq War resolution in the fall of 2002, because they thought it should not be done within the context of an election. Rove, you see, did not think the war vote should be "political".
Moreover, according to Rove, that "premature vote" led to many of the problems that cropped up in the Iraq War. Had Congress not pushed, he says, Bush could have spent more time assembling a coalition, and provided more time to the inspectors.
If you are like me, you have stopped reading/listening, and are rushing to get your anti-emetic.
It is worth remembering that the Senate in the fall of 2002 was controlled, barely, by Democrats. Get it? George Bush, we are being told, wanted to delay, wanted to hold back, wanted to take the time to build a coalition and let the inspectors finish their job, but that damn Congress just pushed him into it. George Bush, you see, is a careful, prudent, leader, deeply concerned about the consequences of premature.
Get it? If Biden, Clinton, Dodd or Edwards is part of the Democratic ticket, the Republicans will run a campaign charging the Senate Democrats with rushing to judgment, of pushing the poor President to premature...(well, you fill in the blank)....
Not that Iraq is that big of an issue. Rove claims that, if Iraq had been a big issue, that Joe Lieberman, who was pro-war, could not have won in Connecticut, defeating receiving more Democratic, Independent and Republican votes than any of his opponents.
I have purposefully NOT provided the (obvious) answers to his claims because to answer is to give him control of the argument. That's Rove's tactic, and I have written about that many times in these pages.
Instead, this should be used as a trigger to talk about Rove's history of dissembling, how that is reflected in the Bush Administration's entire approach to public policy and public information. Bush, through Rove, should be attacked for trying to escape responsibility and accountability. And, it will help to make some historical references to rulers whose tenure was so dismal that they could not allow historians to provide objective analyses, and thus try to write the history themselves.
As might have been predicted, Rove raises "historical revisionism" to new depths, what may become known as "hysterical Rovisionism."
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Rove loves to create spin and if you are dumb enough to believe any of the crap coming out of the mouth of this scumbag, you'll believe anything!
It warms my heart to see Rove sticking it to Liberals!!! I love the guy.
It's wrong of us to assume that these people are going to stop it. They've done a bang-up job, and guess what? They aren't done yet...now comes the revisionis
See, Karl won't go away yet because he's not done re-writing history, an important clean-up step for the Bushites after all the wreckage. Shame on Newsweek for helping him do it.
Rove, IMO, you are slime. You are worse than trailer trash. You do not have any morals whatsoever. I bet your mother was ashamed of you all throughout your life.
to sum it all up this much is true that Orion Hatch let the conversation with CNN .s Jane snow at 9/11 go to Afganistan ..then after taking Kabul the few Congressmwen went to Rome to import a Afgan King who lost his Royal Blue panys to a serious life threat but agreed to steal into his ol home and relax on a bed and bath in shower,,then they announced ,o yea weve been to Kabul ,there was no Emperor ! I had to tell them "that its just a small propriety ".
So "Cuddles" Karlie wants us to change his story - sounds like my 5 year old when he knows he told a whopper to Dad ! This is a 45 year old with a 5 year old mentality - does he really think we will buy this bullsh*t ?
Rove is so absurd - but he is effective - that is the great mystery. Rove can say whatever he wants - but the media he fostered and nurtured is all well archived and to dispute the reality will only serve to expose Rove for the person that he is.
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"We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." "Rice, on Iraq's nuclear capabilities and the Bush administration's case for war, Sept. 8, 2002
"We know he's been absolutely devoted to trying to acquire nuclear weapons, and we believe he has...reco
"The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction, as the core reason." --Wolfowitz, Mayy 28, 2003
"I don't know anybody that I can think of who has contended that the Iraqis had nuclear weapons." "Rumsfeld, June 24, 2003
"We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud." "Rice, on Iraq's nuclear capabilities and the Bush administration's case for war, Sept. 8, 2002
These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.
"Ladies and gentlemen, these are not assertions. These are facts, corroborated by many sources, some of them sources of the intelligence services of other countries.
"We know where they are. They're in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad and east, west, south and north somewhat." "Rumsfeld, when asked about weapons of mass destruction in an ABC News interview, March 30, 2003
"In Iraq, a ruthless dictator cultivated weapons of mass destruction and the means to deliver them. He gave support to terrorists, had an established relationship with al Qaeda, and his regime is no more." "Cheney, Nov. 2003.
F**k Saddam, we're taking him out." "Bush to three U.S. Senators in March 2002, a full year before the Iraq invasion.
This is the Republican
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Rove the Revisionist.
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Regardless, I don't believe any kind of historical editing. Very lame !.
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Please read "General Karl Rove, Reporting for Duty" from the September 29th issue of Time Magazine:
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You know, come to remember--wasn't it Mr. Rove who proclaimed he had "his" #s that predicted repubs would win both houses in 2006?
Clearly he's very confident in his information this time around.
Poor Mr Bush, being forced to wear that codpiece and land on that aircraft carrier all asmile, announcing a mission accomplished before the world?
Tisk tisk.
It's been those nasty dems who made him hold all those press conferences, claim all those improvements just around the corner, while having deemed himself a war president.
Gosh darn it.
Got any more good ones, Karl? I'm all ears.
This man is beneath contempt.
A man,and I use that term loosely,helps steal two elections to install what else? A kleptocracy. First Newsweek then Rose. The only interveiws this "we create our own reality, fascist should be giving is from a jailcell, ideally deathrow for aiding and abetting a murderous presidency.
Words fail me. Why do flatearthers, climate-change deniers, geocentric deniers, warmongers, liars, etc. always get the coverage? Aand not even get a lie-detector test, to start with.
Did any of us really expect TurdBlossom to "go quietly into that goodnight"? Of course not. He will do anything (the outing of Valerie Plame) and say anything (the Defeatocrats want to sit down & have tea with the terrorists) so nothing has changed, ala the Rose interview, since he left the White House. What SHOULD change is our penchant for listening to this idiot. Why should ANYTHING he say be perceived as truth. The entire Bush administration has lied from the beginning, so why should we expect them to stop now ?! Believe me...its gonna get worse!
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