‘Rove: “Congress Pushed Bush to War in Iraq Prematurely”‘
I switch off the television when Tom Cruise, Roger Clemens,
any high school football coach or
Karl Rove begins to speak.
It’s a survival mechanism.
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Paul Abrams
Huffington Post
Rove: “Congress Pushed Bush to War in Iraq Prematurely”
Posted November 25, 2007 | 08:56 PM (EST)
You are not going to believe this, well, actually you will… According to Karl Rove (on Charlie Rose), the Bush Administration did not want Congress to vote on the Iraq War resolution in the fall of 2002, because they thought it should not be done within the context of an election. Rove, you see, did not think the war vote should be “political”.
Moreover, according to Rove, that “premature vote” led to many of the problems that cropped up in the Iraq War. Had Congress not pushed, he says, Bush could have spent more time assembling a coalition, and provided more time to the inspectors.
If you are like me, you have stopped reading/listening, and are rushing to get your anti-emetic.
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Images: (Rove) Gerald Herbert/AP via timeinc.net via time.com; (Damian’s mother scene from Exorcist) via deliriousfilm.com; (Quote–after a fashion) moviequotes.com