Rove: ‘I Make No Apologies’ For Any Of Administration’s Mistakes Or Lies

[babylonsister]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/07/09/rove-at-aspen/

Rove: ‘I Make No Apologies’ For Any Of Administration’s Mistakes Or Lies

This weekend at the Aspen Ideas Festival, President Bush’s political adviser Karl Rove seemed incapable of uttering a single honest statement.

Facing a chilly reception from the audience, who “shook their heads and groaned in unison” during the speech, Rove grossly distorted administration’s policies, on everything from Guantanamo to Iraq to the leak case:

On Guantanamo:

“Our principal health problem down there is gain of weight, we feed them so well.” In fact, Guantanamo prisoners are facing a mental health crisis, with over 40 suicide attempts since its opening, including one suicide in May. Some have been so severely tortured that they were treated by “experts in treating torture victims.”

On Iraq:

“80-90 percent of violence in Iraq is due to al Qaeda.” In fact, as former Secretary of State Colin Powell noted earlier in the conference, only 10 percent of violence in Iraq is due to al Qaeda. As the Carpetbagger noted, “by all indications, Powell was rounding up.” Now, the mainstream media is buying into the al Qaeda fearmongering, as Glenn Greenwald reported.

“We all thought had weapons of mass destruction. The whole world did.” U.N.weapons inspectors and prominent members of the international community strongly disagreed with this assessment before the invasion. One weapons inspector referred to pre-war U.S. intelligence as “garbage after garbage after garbage.”

On the CIA leak case:

“My contribution to this was to say to a reporter, which is a lesson about talking to reporters, the words ‘I heard that, too.’” Rove leaked Valerie Plame’s identity not only to Novak, but to Time’s Matthew Cooper. Cooper said his conversation with Rove was the first time he heard anything about Plame.

Despite participating in egregious and illegal wrongdoings, Rove expressed unwaivering confidence in his boss’s decisions. “Look, I make no apologies,” he said.

[The_Casual_Observer]

1. That guy's ONLY claim to fame was managing dirty political

campaigns. He is an all time world class con man. He is a cancer in our government.

[Vincardog]

10. I Second that emotion: He is a cancer in our government.

[SoCalDem]

2. Sociopaths never regret their actions.. Mayhem is their goal. n/t

[JuniperLea]

4. You nailed it... n/t

[liberal N proud]

3. There is a special place in hell for this demon

[BOSSHOG]

5. Part of the republican playbook

Lie whenever helpful, never apologize, scream and shout at your critics.

[Ganja Ninja]

6. Too late for apologies and anyway I wouldn't accept them.

But it will never be too late to send this unrepentant gang of criminals to the slammer.

[frogcycle]

8. Better yet, let Iraq try them

for crimes against humanity.

That trap door is waiting.

[stellanoir]

7. translation- "I have no conscience or soul"

[jimshoes]

9. The last question I want this rove person

asked is... blindfold or no blindfold?

[YOY]

12. The answer would be cowering in his own feces and piss in the corner with his hands over his head

n/t

[The Backlash Cometh]

11. He just reels them off like a Hitler wannabe.

[glitch]

20. He would consider that a compliment, of that I have no doubt. nt

[young_at_heart]

13. I'd like to know---we taxpayers are out how much to pay his salary?

I don't think he earns whatever it is.

[caligirl]

14. A true yellow belly pig- ' he did it' mentality with a slinky spine.

[grace0418]

15. What a surprise to learn he's a callous, sociopathic fuckface!

I'm shocked to my very core!

[Canuckistanian]

16. And this human slug has a Top Security clearance?

Kiss national security goodbye if a POS like this has so much information.

[spanone]

17. I will rejoice the day rove goes to jail & he will go to jail.

you can't fuck as many people over as rove has and not eventually pay imho

[zabet]

18. KKKarl Rove is evil epitomized.

The architect of terror in America.

[glitch]

19. Of course not. It takes emotion maturity and moral integrity to apologize.

He literally wouldn't know how. Or why.

[Vanje]

21. Cooper said his conversation with Rove was the first time he heard anything about Plame.

"Cooper said his conversation with Rove was the first time he heard anything about Plame.'

Why wasnt Karl Rove indicted for outting a covert CIA agent?

I do not understand why Bush had to commute Libby's short sentence, intead of Karl Rove's very long one.

[rocktivity]

22. As much as I'd like to give the audience credit

didn't they KNOW that Rove would be the speaker? And what kind of ideas come out of a festival of ideas that would HAVE Karl Rove as a speaker?

:shrug:
rocknation

[slowry]

23. It's stunning to consider how many men, women, and children have died, largely because of this

psychopathic pigfucker.

[lonestarnot]

24. Yes it is.

[proud patriot]

25. Rove is such a SOB

x(

[opihimoimoi]

26. DENIAL is The GOP's Trademark....Bullies do that too.

[Cha]

27. The dirty slime asshole apologize?

Nobody wants to hear his fucking apologies..it's too fucking late snout man.