bush's BRAIN photo...The Best Yet!

[leftchick]

The article is great as well...

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/GG15Aa01.html

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While Rove is considered most unlikely to leave, at least in the near term, the stakes are high. Rove, whom Bush has referred to as "the architect" of his electoral successes and, more affectionately, as "boy genius", is widely considered the president's most influential adviser, and not just on political matters.

Neo-conservatives howled, for example, when Rove, who has guided Bush's political career from its outset, reportedly told top cabinet officials in the fall of 2003 that there was to be "no war in 2004", in order to ensure the president's re-election.

"This president does not want to lose Karl Rove," David Gergen, a top political adviser to former presidents Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton, told the Los Angeles Times. "Rove is his right arm."

The controversy began almost exactly two years ago - almost three months after the US invasion of Iraq - when Wilson published a column in the New York Times on July 6, 2003, recounting his 2002 trip to Niger as a CIA consultant precisely to investigate intelligence reports that Iraq had tried to buy a large quantity of yellowcake from the country.