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To: tejek who wrote (360541)	11/28/2007 12:26:31 AM
From: bentway	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1578133

Rove: "Congress Pushed Bush to War in Iraq Prematurely" Posted November 25, 2007 \| 08:56 PM (EST) huffingtonpost.com ( This just leaves me kinda speechless! ) Paul Abrams 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 And, it will help to make some historical references to rulers whose tenure was so dismal that they could not allow historians to provide objective analyses, and thus try to write the history themselves.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."

To: tejek who wrote (360541)	11/28/2007 8:20:36 AM
From: combjelly	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578133

" Frankly, someone needs to give this guy a clue......Bush pretty much has done that already." I imagine a lot of the old guard are still in shock. They have always operated on the principle that any Republican is going to be a better president than any Democrat. They have found out that is wrong. And Rudy looks to be Bush on steroids with an even more abstract approach to real world problems and promising to sink us even deeper into the ME swamp than we are now. Plus, he doesn't seem to have any stance on the economy. Given his history of sweetheart contracts, it will probably be even more rape and pillage than under Bush. The old guard doesn't have a huge problem with pillaging, but the rape part leaves them a little queasy. They aren't big fans of poisoning the well, but much prefer being able to come back again and again.