My Biggest Mistake in the White House (by Karl Rove)

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My Biggest Mistake in the White House (by Karl Rove)

Edited on Thu Jul-15-10 06:39 AM by Botany

Source: Wall St. Journal

My Biggest Mistake in the White House by Karl Rove
Failing to refute charges that Bush lied us into war has hurt our country.

By KARL ROVE

Seven years ago today, in a speech on the Iraq war, Sen. Ted Kennedy fired the first shot in an all-out assault on President George W. Bush's integrity. "All the
evidence points to the conclusion," Kennedy said, that the Bush administration "put a spin on the intelligence and a spin on the truth." Later that day Senate
Minority Leader Tom Daschle told reporters Mr. Bush needed "to be forthcoming" about the absence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).

Thus began a shameful episode in our political life whose poisonous fruits are still with us.

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The damage extended beyond Mr. Bush's presidency. The attacks on Mr. Bush poisoned America's political discourse. Saying the commander-in-chief
intentionally lied America into war is about the most serious accusation that can be leveled at a president. The charge was false—and it opened the way
for politicians in both parties to move the debate from differences over issues into ad hominem attacks.

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We know President Bush did not intentionally mislead the nation. Saddam Hussein was deposed and eventually hung for his crimes. Iraq is a democracy and an
ally instead of an enemy of America. Al Qaeda suffered tremendous blows in the "land between the two rivers." But Democrats lost more than the election in
2004. In telling lie after lie, week after week, many lost their honor and blackened their reputations.

Read more: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704518904575365793062101552.html

I would expect nothing less from Rove but to tell more lies to try to cover up the past lies. But Karl, we do have the truth
and the world does too. Just google Iraq 935 and it is all laid out there w/ footnotes, time, place, and the source of the lies told
to start that damn war.

http://projects.publicintegrity.org/WarCard/

On May 29, 2003, in an interview with Polish TV, President Bush declared: "We found the weapons of mass destruction.
We found biological laboratories." But as journalist Bob Woodward reported in State of Denial, days earlier a team of
civilian experts dispatched to examine the two mobile labs found in Iraq had concluded in a field report that the labs were
not for biological weapons. The team's final report, completed the following month, concluded that the labs had probably
been used to manufacture hydrogen for weather balloons.

On January 28, 2003, in his annual State of the Union address, Bush asserted: "The British government has learned that Saddam
Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to
purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production." Two weeks earlier, an analyst with the State
Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research sent an email to colleagues in the intelligence community laying out why he
believed the uranium-purchase agreement "probably is a hoax."

Although Karl you were kind enough to give your email address. Karl@Rove.com Thanx!

BTW the picture below is from winter 2003 of Powell holding up a vile of "anthrax" (prop) and linking it to Saddam Hussein
even though in the fall 2001 anthrax attacks the bacteria came from the stocks @ the U.S. military base @ Ft. Detrick, MD. The DNA tests
in fall 2001 showed that w/ out a doubt so Gen. Powell was either knowingly or unknowingly telling a lie here in front of the
world.