1.0 link 75079 <![CDATA[Daschle Calls Rove's Iraq War Accusation "A Joke"]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2007/12/03/daschle-calls-roves-iraq-_n_75079.html Former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle today called Karl Rove's accusation that Congress rushed President Bush into the Iraq war, "a joke."

During an appearance on the Bill Press Show, Daschle mocked the idea that it was he, not the Bush administration, who deliberately accelerated the time frame for Congress to vote on the Iraq war resolution in the fall of 2002.

"Well, I was called last week a couple of times and I literally thought it was a joke,"...

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