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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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Thanks for making me feel at home here.
I think Karl Rove abused his policy position in the White House to prolong the Iraq war. Had we simply toppled Saddam Hussein, an admitted Stalinist, and left the Iraqi army and civil service alone, as our military wanted to do, G.W. Bush and Dick Cheney would not have looked as bad. There were some pretty savvy people at the time who believed that Saddam was a menace who had to be dealt with. 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.
Rove went way off track in favor of "giving business everything they want" (fascism) in 2000, out of desperation to defeat John McCain, whose "Straight-talk Express" campaign was being managed by John Weaver, Rove's nemesis. McCain beat Bush badly in the New Hampshire Primary. Rove offered Tom Donohue, then President of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, a blank check to assure his unqualified support for George W. Bush in the 2000 Republican primary and general election.