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I’ve become jaded to the bizarro world things Bush & Co. (and ex-Co.) have said over the years. But this made me laugh out loud.
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.
Phillep, Matt G., & MikeN
Why have I come to expect nothing less from you guys? If the news doesn’t fit your leader’s agenda, then it must be because it is wrong. Then you guys just invent some garbage and toss it out there as fact. Sorry, the world doesn’t work that way. The internet has allowed for fact checking to become quick and accurate.
The saddest theme you die hard Bush worshipers come out with is to turn around and say “well the Democrats / Clinton / Carter / Stalin did it first. That gives Bush a legal right to do it too”. Only most of the time it is only a figment of your imagination or the precedent has been totally twisted opposite of what the Democrats / Clinton / etc did.
What I can’t figure out is why there are still more than his mommy and dog who support George W. Bush.
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Hahaha…about the only thing I haven’t seen here much is the suggestion by anyone (outside of you just now), that their own party is perfect. In fact, I mostly see a kind of “eff all of them” attitude.
It’s not a matter of whose perfect..it’s more a matter of seeing that the emperor has no clothes and noting the fact…and since the chimperor is not only parading around naked, but attempting get everyone else to do so also, so that he can say everyone does it, often at the point of a gun (or at least a bathtub),..this is going to be noted a bit…
I long ago thought it was going to be impossible for the republicans to find a bigger (Fill in your own adjectives here..plenty to chose from.) than the Tricky D., but it took barely a quarter century to get the US public to bend over and open even wider…
Since the time gap is shortening, I expect the next one in only 2 or 3 election cycles..and since they seem to get even more stupid and vicious each time, you might want to get to stocking up on your 2nd amendment rights any day now…before the perfect democrats pave the republicans way to total dictatorship by excising that one from the document.
That Rove, what a kidder. Next he’s going to be saying stuff like the Democrats actually voted for the war October 11, 2002.
And that all the Democratic leaders want to keep the US in Iraq.
RBG
>>Next he’s going to be saying stuff like
>>the Democrats actually voted for the war
>>October 11, 2002.
Nobody (except may the extreme right chickenhawks) vote “for the war”. The Iraq War Resolution authorized Dumbya to use the Armed Forces against Iraq as a last resort. Not as a foregone conclusion, something the Chimp in Chief had been planning since his theft of the election in 2000.
If Rove sai anything to the contrary, he would be a liar. Imagine that.
And if that minority of Democrats had been told the TRUTH back then, instead of President Rove/ Cheney’s steaming pile of bullshit, NONE of them would have voted to give the Little King the authority to wipe his own ass, much less take the country into a misbegotten war.
See it with your own eyes – the unbelievable excerpt is on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTqACtWRJT0
Who cares.
They are all crooks.
If it’s not Peanut Carter or Blow Job Bill it’s Bizzaro Bush. At least we can laugh because most nations now suffer from “polling for decisions”. Surely you don’t think the war was decided in Bushville and rolled out. It was decided by polling numbers.
Consider Chavez and Putin, what jokes. Kinda reminds you of US elections. Stack the deck and then push.
Where are the Washingtons or Lincolns of this generation. Or at least the Thatchers or Reagons? I suspect they wouldn’t run for office as the people have no integrity, just like the politicians.
Puhlease don’t point at the current crop of candidates, Hillary, Romney, Obama, ….. Wimps one and all…
How depressing. I’m beginning to think Pat Buchanan is right.
Maybe those Quantum Mechanics guys are right about all this observing the distant Universe is somehow effecting reality itself. It sure seems we’re getting some kind of leakage from the parallel Right-Wingo-Verse into this one.
http://tinyurl.com/yqsv96
Just the kind of rhetoric that comes up to deflect the mud present in any election year.
Everyone seems to forget that we really are not at war with anyone, let alone Iraq. There is no war in Iraq. Congress never declared war. We may have troops stationed all over the world to “protect the borders of the United States,” but we are officially “at peace” with everyone.
Under the Constitution of the United States, that quaint old document that few people (except for Ron Paul) bother to read anymore, only CONGRESS can declare war. And the President becomes the Commander in Chief of the Armed Forces ONLY AFTER Congress has passed a declaration of war. Since Congress never did so, Bush really isn’t the Commander in Chief.
All Congress did was pass a resolution authorizing Bush to use military force to eliminate the threat of Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. Never mind that there weren’t any of those things to begin with.
As soon as Bush decided his Mission was Accomplished, he should have begun withdrawing the troops from Iraq and concentrating on domestic policy. He obviously knows nothing at all about foreign policy and should keep his nose out of it.