Despite 935 documented lies, Rove book insists Iraq war was justified

[G_j]

http://rawstory.com/2010/03/935-documented-lies-rove-book-insists-iraq-war-justified/


Despite 935 documented lies, Rove book insists Iraq war was justified

By Raw Story
Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010 -- 10:09 am

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Republican strategist Karl Rove says in a new memoir that the failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq badly damaged the Bush administration's credibility and led to dwindling public support for the war.

The former White House political adviser blames himself for not pushing back against claims that President George W. Bush had taken the country to war under false pretenses, calling it one of the worst mistakes he made during the Bush presidency. The president, he adds, did not knowingly mislead the American public about the existence of such weapons.

In "Courage and Consequence," Rove argues that history will look favorably on Bush's two-term presidency, particularly his decision to invade Iraq. He calls the 2003 invasion the most consequential act of the Bush presidency and a justifiable response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, even though al-Qaida and Osama bin Laden, not Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein, were responsible.

In the run-up to the war, Bush and his national security team, including Vice President Dick Cheney, attempted to link Saddam to the attacks as a way to build support for the invasion.

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"Having seen how much carnage four airplanes could cause, Bush was determined to do all he could to prevent the most powerful weapons from falling into the hands of the world's most dangerous dictators," Rove wrote.


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[Winterblues]

1. ONLY 935 Lies!!!!

Seems to me like it is every single time they open their mouths a Lie comes out...935 Lies probably happened the first week they were in Office..

[4lbs]

8. He had a deadline to meet, so not enough time to put in more. (n/t)

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[Xipe Totec]

2. He blames himself for leaving a lie unuttered?

Poor thing!

[Blue Owl]

3. "Having seen how much carnage four airplanes could cause..."

Pay no attention to the memo the pResident read prior to the 9/11 attack there, turdboy.

[G_j]

6. "Having been clearly warned of how much carnage four airplanes could cause..."

would have been correct

[Echo In Light]

7. Pay no attention to the PNAC signers who largely headed up *'s 1st term admin

[Supersedeas]

12. the August 6 PDB never happened, I guess

[Bozita]

14. It only contained the box score from the Aug 5 Texas Ranger game

Only poor folks work in August.

[lame54]

4. I hope they file this in the fiction category

[omega minimo]

5. He didn't "push back" at the time, against the claims that were true, just tries to rewrite history.

:puke:

[tom_paine]

9. He knows the sad truth that Goebbels and Hitler were correct about The Big Lie.

Of course, to him it's not sad, after all he is one of the primary architects of the upgrading of Hitlers' and Goebbels' tactics.

[Blue_Tires]

10. These people still go about their happy lives

while in Europe the English and the Dutch have been putting government officials on the spot asking hard questions about the case for the invasion...

[G_j]

13. you'd never know, from the complete lack of reporting in the US nt

[damntexdem]

11. Not DESPITE the lies -- based on them.

And the 936th documented lie is the book itself.