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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.
Too bad that he isn’t the one with the actual powers to command the military or anything, then even if congress had given him powers ‘prematurely’ then he could have opted not to use them until it was actually the time he thought was right. But alas…
Sounds like a cover up to protect his image.
You would think the Karl Rove had already reached the low point on the ridiculous republican scale. Yet, here you see him digging!
OMG. This is too much.
the best part is this: come tomorrow, every single right-wing pundit is going to be parroting this as the gospel
after years of calling the democrats soft on terrorism, they’ll pull a 180 and blame iraq on them
no matter how many times bush is on tape saying “i don’t think it’s congress’s job to run the war, i think they should just fund it”
the brainwashed republican masses will completely switch and say that invading iraq was a bad idea perpetrated by the democrats
the psychological pathology is staggering to behold.
in a word, wow.
Great, more babble to keep the masses confused. The machine works, and it’s a monster.
Ummmm, I’m speechless.
I was wondering when the Apologies and excuses would come..
So Bush wanted more foreplay but Congress was paying for it so they told him to make it a quickie. Now Bush doesn’t want Congress to pull out prematurely until he’s satisfied.
These things kind of write themselves…
who needs to build a good legacy when you can just erase your current one and rewrite it? sheeple will believe it, thats whats really really sad.
I heard Rush make the same remark about 6 months ago. He was running through his sing-song litany of all the problems the Dem congress brought us and right in the middle of the list was “…Got us in a war in Iraq…”
I almost drove off the road.
Give me a freakin’ break already. Rove and the rest of Bushco, Inc. should be put in jail, and left with the rest of the prison population to see how long they would last. Or maybe we could just waterboard them.
I love this column, just for humor like this!
If only it was funny …
>>right in the middle of the list was “…Got
>>us in a war in Iraq…”
Hey, that’s a BAD thing? I thought Anal Cyst and his Diddoheads SUPPORTED the war? Are they trying to give kudos to the Dems for trying to spread democracy to less fortunate nations? Or is the war a bad thing now…are they flip-flopping?
Damn. It must be so confusing to be a neocon. You never know what “stance” you’re supposed to adopt on an issue until the Talk Radio Overlords make this week’s proclamation.
#4 – the brainwashed republican masses
All 24% of them… 🙂
Uh-huh. And, all of you have forgotten exactly how hawkish the Democrats were before they realized a win would help Bush and the Republicans?
Re writing history again?
In similar news, Dnesh DeSouza is making the rounds affirming that Christian Religious Faith is grounded in science and reason. There is no conflict between the two–just a big lie propagated by the atheists.
I guess this is why “Christian” and “Right” go so well together.
>>all of you have forgotten exactly how
>>hawkish the Democrats were before they
>>realized a win would help Bush and the
>>Republicans?
Hawkish? Please list a couple of Dems who were in favor of Dumbya’s war (and I do NOT mean those who voted to give Dumbya the authority to go to war IF IT WAS WARRANTED [which it never was]), I mean those who actively supported the invasion of Iraq.
As to who benefits if Dumbya won a war…LOL! Now there’s something that would never happen. That bobblehead hasn’t been successful at a single thing he’s done in his entire life. There was never any danger of him scoring a “win”.
#15 – Uh-huh. And, all of you have forgotten exactly how hawkish the Democrats were before they realized a win would help Bush and the Republicans?
No. I don’t remember that.
I do recall how hawkish they were when they were presented with evidence of WMDs and Iraq-terror ties and other data that all turned out to be a lie.
Why a lie, and not just faulty data? Because the intelligence community knew the info was not reliable, told Bush it wasn’t, and Bush used it anyway… thus, Bush is a liar.*
*add this to cocaine user, alcoholic, military deserter, poor student, nepotistic silver-spoon baby, sub-literate, and business failure.
You poor saps are all confused by that sour bitch queen “reality”. Doncha know, Bush lives beyond any of that nastiness and is our “dear leader” who has no faults and is a perfect “decider”.
Pure BDS nonsense. This is a non story story designed to keep the Fever Swamp foaming at the mouth for the election season.
You guys either need psychological help, a girlfriend, or a hobby. Because this Bush obsession of yours (and the anti Christian obsession) just flat out isn’t healthy.
I admit to some puzzlement as to how they could “force” Bush into the war. However, Hillary, Gore, Kerry, and Ted Kennedy were all in favor of stomping someone. All of those who “voted for the war before opposing it”.
The US did “win the war” in that the organized military was defeated (“War”, in spite of the stupid “War on drugs/ poverty/ birthdefects/ cancer/ whatever idiocy, is defined as a clash between militaries). The occupation got a bit rocky, but still went better than the occupation of Germany after WWII. The surge, if you go to original sources instead of the Democrat supporting MSM, is working and violence is falling off.
It’s gotten so that even the New York Times is having to, very grudgingly, suggest Iraq might not be as bad as it was last year.
I have hope, born of seeing the awakening in the heartland of this country. They’ve turned opposites too many times. That sort of anti-reality, accuse your opponents of your crimes sort of behavior kinda wears thin after a while, and the spell is slowly being broken. The problem is, the ones most enraptured by it are the Democratic leadership and advisors, which is most unfortunate. I’m not sure how we can wrest control of the country from these selfish fools without their help.
Phillep, the dead and displaced aren’t suddenly A-OK because the violence is less bad than in the past. It remains a galling point to me that the whole invasion and occupation was a fools errand, based on lies, that set us back in every strategic fashion against the real enemy, that is, if we would pick our enemies by those who attack us rather than by macho grudges and the promise of profiteering. Rather than adapt to a shadowy, elusive enemy with our own equivalents, the special forces, we sent in all the expensive toys to justify buying more. I think that it might actually be a shock to our leadership that wars aren’t won by comparing the expense at the end, but by the effective application of force and the goodwill of the locals. Our cost plus strategy flattens city blocks to kill ten people, and after that sort of attack goodwill can be hard to find.
They supported the war up until they realized Bush was more vulnerable on the war than the economy(which started picking up steam). Anderson Cooper even asked John Kerry about it’ When you saw the new jobs numbers come out, did you say to yourself uh oh?
Li, That’s pure baffle gab from you. Move the goalposts, try for the morally superior position, and keep it all vague generalities.
Dehumanize the enemy by ignoring all their actions and motivations. Treat them as robots that can only react, as animals devoid of reason. Helpless in the face of the god like (or demonic) powers of the President of the United States.
And totally ignore the humanity of the people in Washington, Democrat as well as Republican. Demand impossible perfection from the other party, and insist that your own party is perfect, as defined by whatever the latest party line happens to be.
Get out in the real world more.
BULLSH!T, although Bush and his administation undoubtably have insiders within Congress.
*lol* See, that sort of gobblygook, robots accusing people of being robots. The spell is broken, and I am free.
I’m ashamed I once thought of myself as a Republican.
I really don’t care at this point who’s fault it was. Thats something to be hashed out later, after we leave a semi-stable Iraq. Maybe at the war crime’s trials.
I just want us to bring our people home and leave something akin to a semi-working semi-democracy in Iraq. The people there want democracy, they proved that when they went to the polls under the threat of death, but they also want and need some stablizing help.
In the not to distant future, Iraq will come out of this mess and most likely Bush will get the credit for it(thats how history is written), just in time for his first parole hearing. 🙂
Karl Rove is like a guru of revisionist history… and Phillip and MikeN are star students.
#14 ….OFTLO…..it’s actually 33.6%….has been for several months now. I figure that’s his family, Rove’s family, Halliburtion employee’s, and all of the Al Quieda secret cells in this country(best recruitment ad they ever had). 🙂