Rove Admits Iraq War was an Osama Trap
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Rove Admits Iraq War was an Osama Trap
Via NY Transfer News Collective * All the News that Doesn't Fit
Think Progress - April 19, 2007
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/04/19/rove-history-iraq/
Rove: "I Wish The Iraq War Never Existed, It Was Osama Bin Laden's Idea"
On a visit to Ohio yesterday, White House senior political adviser Karl
Rove claimed he never wanted the war in Iraq:
â??I wish the war were over,â?? Rove said. â??I wish the war never
existed... History has given us a challenge.â??
History shows Rove was exceptionally eager in 2002 for the upcoming
Iraq war, anxious to reap what he viewed would be the political gains
for conservatives leading another military conflict:
In January 2002, Rove told conservatives, â??Americans trust the
Republicans to do a better job of keeping our communities and our
families safeâ?¦We can also go to the country on this issue because they
trust the Republican Party to do a better job of protecting and
strengthening Americaâ??s military might and thereby protecting America.â??
In June 2002, Rove was giving PowerPoint presentations candidates
advising them to â??focus on the warâ?? in their fall campaigns.
In August 2002, Rove was chairing the White House Iraq Group, whose
mission was to â??develop a strategy for publicizing the White Houseâ??s
assertion that Saddam Hussein posed a threat to the United States.â??
In September 2002, Time reported that when friends asked whether
Bush planned to invade Iraq, Rove was been known to reply, â??Let me put
it this way: If you want to see Baghdad, youâ??d better visit soon.â??
Former White House counterterrorism director Richard Clarke later wrote
that the Iraq â??crisis was manufactured, and Bush political adviser Karl
Rove was telling Republicans to â??run on the war.â??â??
Rove also claimed yesterday that it was bin Laden, not President Bush,
who decided to launch the Iraq war:
In a question-and-answer period after his speech, Rove was asked
whose idea it was to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq.
â??I think it was Osama bin Ladenâ??s,â?? Rove replied.
Roveâ??s comments are part of re-emerging tactic by the Bush
administration to associate the ongoing war in Iraq with 9/11. Rove and
company appear to have forgotten that President Bush said 9/11 had
â??nothingâ?? to do with the war in Iraq.
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