Saturday, December 01, 2007

Karl Rove Rewriting History

The Bush administration’s spends so much time rewriting history that I’m afraid they’ll run out of ink before they run out of lies. The latest redaction comes from Karl Rove, the president’s former chief political strategist, who told interviewer Charlie Rose that the great untold story of the Iraq War was how the Democratic Congress railroaded the country to war. That’s right. Rove implied that Congress -- not president Bush -- was the driving force that was responsible for taking the United States into Iraq. If only Congress hadn’t rushed the vote ahead of the 2002 mid-term elections, then we might have had time to allow the inspections to work, or assemble a true international coalition to deal with Saddam.

Rove’s argument is a bit like a drunk who convinces you he’s sober, but when totals your car he blames you for giving him the keys in the first place. It was pretty sickening to see the Republican National Committee run war-themed ads, effectively taunting the Democrats with the political consequences of voting to leave Saddam in power. But it is downright nauseating to see a weasel like Rove try and absolve the Bush administration for making the worst foreign policy decision in American history by running away from the historical record. I don’t know if Rove believes his own spin – a pretty scary thought – but Rove’s hopes for a permanent Republican majority are getting buried by an avalanche of lies.

Even Rove's colleagues seem taken aback by his sel-serving interpretation of history. As reported in The Washington Post, former Bush chief-of-staff, Andy Card, suggested that "Rove's brain gets ahead of his mouth." Well, considering the fact that Rove was "Bush's Brain" that's a disquieting thought.

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