Is this really our Media: Root of the Rove controversy is the war in Iraq

[dbonds]

Could it be our trip to bizarro world is over? Who clicked their red shoes?

U.S. justification for waging war on Saddam still haunts White House

By David Gregory
Chief White House correspondent
NBC News
Updated: 7:44 p.m. ET July 13, 2005


David Gregory
Chief White House correspondent
WASHINGTON - President Bush said Wednesday that he will reserve judgment on Karl Rove’s possible involvement in the leaking of a CIA agent's identity until the special prosecutor’s criminal investigation into the matter is complete.

"This is a serious investigation," Bush said at the end of a meeting with his Cabinet, with Rove, his deputy chief of staff, sitting just behind him. "I will be more than happy to comment on this matter once this investigation is completed,” Bush said.

While the White House seemingly stands by its man, NBC News chief White House correspondent David Gregory discusses the investigation, how the administration is expected to proceed, and how the root of the scandal is once again the controversial justifications for the war in Iraq.


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As to the question of whether what Karl Rove did was a smear campaign, or politically sleazy, it’s pretty clear to me that everyone in White House — from the president, to the vice president, to other officials — shared Rove’s interest in discrediting former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, who was critical of the administration’s case for going to war in Iraq.


http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8562589/


Edit: for missing last paragraph

[Goldmund]

1. Get this

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,162460,00.html

[dbonds]

3. Thats pretty amazing too, especially considerring the source.

[ewagner]

2. Gregory is stumbling

into the truth.....

could it be that he's finally thinking this through? Could it be he's one of the few reporters who actually has a brain?

God this is good news.....

[merwin]

4. Scott McClellan pissed david off royally in the last few press

conferences.

[MsTryska]

5. hey....wasn't david the...

"scott - come on, you can't be serious?" guy?


he's my favorite right now.

[natrat]

6. greedy fuckers: all comes back to the missing $$$billions from iraq

[praisethelowered]

7. yes- why did rove smear wilson ????????

. . . . because he was contradicting the big iraq war lie!

that question and it's answer tie together enough (though not all) of the sleazy maneuvers of the white house to bring down the whole corporateering white house crowd and bring democracy back to America

[PurityOfEssence]

8. It really is a whole lotta parsing about the GODDAM OBVIOUS, isn't it?

Yeah, one honorable man stood up and said it like it was, and they had to crush him hard to show everyone else in the Intel world that they'd be ruined if they let the worst-kept secret ever out of the bag.

The reason this has legs is that it's obvious as hell to even one-celled organisms: this is about trying to contain the fact that this junta DELIBERATELY LIED to Congress to scare them into getting permission, never had any intention to use "diplomacy" and had wanted to do this for a long time. The astonishing avoidance of the obvious is mind-numbing. It's like not acknowledging that oil had anything to do with it.

Nobody came running to the administration with fears of Hussein; to the contrary, the administration browbeat, fired and threatened anyone who wouldn't give them proper excuses, and when even that didn't work, formed groups in the Pentagon and White House to do it for themselves.

None of this passes the sniff test. Fear of terrorism was nothing but an excuse to terrorize Americans into letting this mob have their war of Corporate Conquest. It's a national shame, and the only way to make it good is to "out" everyone who had anything to do with it.

[dbonds]

9. Hmmm, this was on the MSNBC front page when I linked it...

Up under the top story picture. Seems to not be there now. But at least the direct link works.