Iraq 'n Rove or How Karl danced Bush to a second term

[eleny]

Here's an article about Rove at Truthseekers.com. I've never read this web site until today. These paragraphs are from an article about Karl Rove. First is about Rove's financial dealings and the second is about Rove and Iraq. Truthseekers claims to have an "in" at the WH.

http://www.thetruthseeker.co.uk/article.asp?ID=2432

"In March 2001, Rove met with executives from Intel, successfully advocating a merger between a Dutch company and an Intel company supplier. Rove owned $100,000 in Intel Co. stock at the time. In June 2001, Rove met with two pharmaceutical industry lobbyists. At the time, Rove held almost $250,000 in drug industry stocks. On 30 June 2001, Rove divested his stocks in 23 companies, which included more than $100,000 in each Enron, Boeing, General Electric, and Pfizer. Rove was one of the biggest holders of Enron stock among White House staffers, with between $100,000 and $250,000 worth of shares when he was appointed. He was required to sell them when the Bush administration took office On 30 June 2001, the White House admitted that Rove was involved in administration energy policy meetings, while at the same time holding stock in energy companies including Enron. Rove also recommended the Republican strategist Ralph Reed (former executive director of the Christian Coalition) to Enron for a consulting contract as Bush was considering whether to run for president.

Although it has become a common belief that the U.S. attack on Iraq was instigated by the extreme right of the Republican party or the macninations of the very pro-Israeli neo-cons, the actual movitating force behind what has deveoped into a terrible debacle was Karl Rove. He believes, and has stated, that a wartime president is impossible to attack and that if Bush were seen as a wartime president, he would be guaranateed two full terms. In spite of many negative reports on the feasibility of such an attack by US intelligence agencies, to include the CIA and the Pentagon, Rove easily persuaded Bush to abandon his military activities in Afghanistan for a much more dramatic pounce on oil-rich Iraq."

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[eleny]

2. Thanks for the kick

I was always worried about what Bush** would use to drum up support to get Rs elected in the 2002 midterm elections. When he started his Iraq WMD mantra, I was horrified and figured that this was it. I only joined DU in 2003, so didn't have a chance to discuss it. Today, I came upon that site. It was the first time I ever saw anyone propose any related notion. But like I said, I didn't get to DU until last year.

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