In what was a remarkable admission that contradicted - to a large extent - the past statements from his onetime boss, former Bush strategist Karl Rove said on Tuesday evening that had the President known Iraq did not possess weapons of mass destruction, the United States would not have gone to war. Full Story »
Posted by Dwight Rousu
"Turd Blossom" speaks and contradicts his boss on invading Iraq if the intel had been "right" (no WMDs), but just like his boss forgets to mention that Lord Cheney cherry picked intel.
Stein only catches part of the inconsistency here. The main question is not the hypothetical question of whether Bush would have invaded or not. The central fact is that intelligence was widely available that affirmed that Iraq did not have WMDs, and Bush chased the UN inspectors out so he could attack before they finalized the conclusion. Bush/Cheney/Rove were not duped; they duped the press.
Very interesting historical revisionism, and essentially a load of rubbish from Karl Rove. The CIA knew Iraq had no WMD but the Dick Cheney gang made sure that information was kept buried at Langley. Knowingly false intelligence was used to dupe the American public into allowing the invasion to go forward, to create an illegal war, but Rove camouflages this by claiming Bush would not have gone to war if he knew there were no WMD.
I think Cheney knew there were no WMD and rushed the invasion forward because he feared this knowledge would become too generally known if war was delayed. Bush, being an arrogant ignoramus of the first degree, may have been duped in part by Cheney, so that Bush actually believed WMD would be found, to justify the invasion.
This is so disingenuous. Bush first says he absolutely WOULD have invaded, even without WMD info; now he says he really can't say. Rove is trying to rewrite history FOR him, saying he would not have invaded had he "known." It was his BUISNESS to "know!" He HAD all the information about 9/11, but didn't READ it. He was too busy kicking back in Crawford, taking more vacations than any president in the history of the U.S.! If you wanted anyone to believe you Karl, you would b ... More »
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