Dean Denounces Rove's Remarks

[cal04]

Democratic Party chairman Howard Dean says White House adviser Karl Rove's push to make the war on terrorism a central campaign issue is "both unpatriotic and wrong."

Dean was responding to remarks made earlier today by Rove, who said Republicans have "a post-Nine-Eleven view of the world," while Democrats have a "pre-Nine-Eleven view."

Dean denounced the remarks and again said that Rove should be fired for his role in leaking a C-I-A official's name.
Rove's appearance today was a rare public one, and he used it to push the president's mission of staying in Iraq.

He says that Republicans understand better than Democrats the "the nature of the threat and the gravity that America finds itself in."

http://www.kpvi.com/index.cfm?page=nbcheadlines.cfm&ID=30747

[Poiuyt]

1. What's Patrick Fitzgerald been up to?

I sure hope he comes down with Rove's indictment pretty soon.

[levitating_dog]

2. Rove is right on one point...

Republicans definitely understand the threat to the American people, because they (republicans) ARE the threat.

For the life of me, I just cannot understand how so many people in our great country can be so easily brainwashed by the right.

[helderheid]

4. MSM.

[levitating_dog]

8. Agreed...

Add to that their intellectual laziness.

[bobbieinok]

9. 24/7 RW talk radio.....2 on am in Tulsa plus religious wrong station

the auto repair place I go to runs Rush in the office

[newyawker99]

11. Hi levitating_dog!!

Welcome to DU!! :toast:

[Virginian]

3. Rove said Republicans think post 9/11 and Dems think Pre 9/11

1. How can he tell me what I think? Has he ever been a Democrat? I don't think so. If he tells me how I think, am I supposed to fall in line and think that way? I am sick and tired of this administration telling people what the American people think when they have no idea. I am tired of them trying to redefine the world. I don't care how many times they try to tell me, the sky is not green and it never will be.

2. If Bush is a war president, then Rove outed an agent in time of war and is guilty of treason.

3. Maybe Democrats think pre 9/11 because we aren't completely convinced that it wasn't partially an inside job to make the country support a war against the terrorists. The fact that Cheney shows up in Egypt and then suddenly there are not one but two al Qaeda tapes showing up in Egypt, too.

4. I don't know who we should fear the most, the terrorists or our own government that is trying to cause us to fear the terrorists so they can rob us for the benefit of their wealthy contributers.

5. They tell us 9/11 changed everything. It may have. It may have changed our democracy into an imperial government. King George can do no wrong because he isn't subject to the same laws as the rest of us.

[FreedomAngel82]

6. Hear hear

1) I'm tired of everybody telling me what I think. I'm tired of a police state. *sigh* It's so draining how they're trying to destroy every part of our being.

2) They all should be in jail.

3) Bush made 9/11 happen with ignoring everything. I can't stand how they use 9/11 for everything when he's the one who allowed it to happen!

4) Our government

5) Saying 9/11 changed everything is like saying Pearl Harbor changed everything. Doesn't mean anything. We still are a country of laws. As Thomas Paine said: "Our laws are the king."

[Armstead]

5. I agree with what Rove said

"He says that Republicans understand better than Democrats the "the nature of the threat and the gravity that America finds itself in."

Damn straight they do. The Republicans are the ones who put America into this grave situation, so naturally they understand how badly they screwed the pooch.

[reality based]

7. If Rove wants to make the "war" on terror an issue

Democrats should oblige him (and should have obliged him long ago). 9/11 happened on the Republican watch under questionable circumstances which have yet to be satisfactorily explained. Since then-- over four years-- they allowed the chief perpetrators to go unpunished. Contrast: Hitler was dead a little over three years after Pearl Harbor. Terrorist attacks have increased. Iraq is a brewing vat for terror. The ex-governor of Texas and his cabal are abject failures in the "war". Why is Bin Ladin still on my TV? And who sent the anthrax through the US mail?

[Rageneau]

10. Rove has a pre-democracy view of the US.

He likes Kings named George -- like in the old days.

[pdxmom]

12. It needs to immediately be pointed out how Rove has already

started "politicizing" the supposed war on terror. Politicizing anything is always what the Repukes throw up to keep from engaging in debate and to alter the issue being discussed. Give them a taste of their own medicine every time they do it.

[Toots]

13. Yes they are so qualified to defend America, their bravery in combat

should give them carte blanc when it comes to defending us.....Rove and Cheney were the first ones out of the foxholes in the assault to take Hamburger hill. I think Rush Limbaugh was even ahead of them..:+