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In reply to the discussion: How Karl Rove fixed the FBI investigation of his theft of the 2004 Presidential election in Ohio [View all]Cliff Arnebeck
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I think Karl Rove abused his policy position in the White House to prolong the Iraq war. Had we simply toppled Saddam Hussein, a self-admitted Stalinist, and left the Iraqi army and civil service alone, as our military wanted to do, the war would have been over before the 2004 election. I believe it was Rove who was behind the dismissal of the Iraqi army and the debathification of the Iraqi civil service, which created a power vacuum, an insurgency and a long war of occupation. Perhaps Rove's missing Emails would reveal this to be the case.
For Rove it was a way to have G.W. Bush running for reelection as a "war-time President;" and a basis for telling John Kerry, the Democratic Party, the FBI and our nation's investigative press corps that they could not attack the integrity of the President and Commander in Chief at a time of war. Persuading/influencing Kerry not to contest was the key to getting everyone else to fall into line. The evidence that John Kerry felt a duty to support the war, the commander-in-chief and the troops was his presence in Iraq on January 6, 2005, the day the challenge to the Ohio Electoral College vote was raised by U.S. Rep. Stephanie Tubbs Jones and U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer.