Former Bush political advisor, Karl Rove, has probably done more than any other presidential aide to confound, confuse, deceive, distract and mislead the American people and he won't quit even long after he's left the White House.
Rove has been trying to polish Bush's apple by rewriting history about the vote in congress authorizing war on Iraq. This guy has had the gall to claim it was Democrats in Congress who forced Bush to act prematurely. For the record, Karl Rove is a complete and shameless liar.
This is the pile that Rove dumped on Charlie Rose last week: "The administration was opposed to voting on it in the fall of 2002," Rove said. Asked why, he said: "Because we didn't think it belonged within the confines of the election. There was an election coming up within a matter of weeks. We thought it made it too political. We wanted it outside the confines of it. It seemed to make things move too fast. There were things that needed to be done to bring along allies and potential allies abroad."
Ex-Senate majority leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) had an entirely different take on it. In an interview, Daschle said he asked Bush during a breakfast to delay the vote until after the election. "They told us time was of the essence and they needed the vote and they were going to move forward," he said.
The Washington Post went to the archives and found - surprise, surprise - Rove was lying through his teeth. Among the goodies was this line from noneother than Incurious George himself:
"Asked on Sept. 13, 2002, about Democrats who did not want to vote until after the UN Security Council acted, Bush said, 'If I were running for office, I'm not sure how I'd explain to the American people -- say, 'Vote for me, and, oh, by the way, on a matter of national security, I think I'm going to wait for somebody else to act.' "
Rover couldn't even get a break from former White House Press Secretar Ari Fleischer who said,
"It was definitely the Bush administration that set it in motion and determined the timing, not the Congress," he said. "I think Karl in this instance just has his facts wrong."
Even former White House chief of staff, Andrew Card couldn't keep a straight face. Card laughed and said that "sometimes his mouth gets ahead of his brain."
Karl Rove, an utterly shameless liar. And, please, don't think for a minute that he just got his facts wrong - unintentionally that is.
Rove has been trying to polish Bush's apple by rewriting history about the vote in congress authorizing war on Iraq. This guy has had the gall to claim it was Democrats in Congress who forced Bush to act prematurely. For the record, Karl Rove is a complete and shameless liar.
This is the pile that Rove dumped on Charlie Rose last week: "The administration was opposed to voting on it in the fall of 2002," Rove said. Asked why, he said: "Because we didn't think it belonged within the confines of the election. There was an election coming up within a matter of weeks. We thought it made it too political. We wanted it outside the confines of it. It seemed to make things move too fast. There were things that needed to be done to bring along allies and potential allies abroad."
Ex-Senate majority leader Thomas A. Daschle (D-S.D.) had an entirely different take on it. In an interview, Daschle said he asked Bush during a breakfast to delay the vote until after the election. "They told us time was of the essence and they needed the vote and they were going to move forward," he said.
The Washington Post went to the archives and found - surprise, surprise - Rove was lying through his teeth. Among the goodies was this line from noneother than Incurious George himself:
"Asked on Sept. 13, 2002, about Democrats who did not want to vote until after the UN Security Council acted, Bush said, 'If I were running for office, I'm not sure how I'd explain to the American people -- say, 'Vote for me, and, oh, by the way, on a matter of national security, I think I'm going to wait for somebody else to act.' "
Rover couldn't even get a break from former White House Press Secretar Ari Fleischer who said,
"It was definitely the Bush administration that set it in motion and determined the timing, not the Congress," he said. "I think Karl in this instance just has his facts wrong."
Even former White House chief of staff, Andrew Card couldn't keep a straight face. Card laughed and said that "sometimes his mouth gets ahead of his brain."
Karl Rove, an utterly shameless liar. And, please, don't think for a minute that he just got his facts wrong - unintentionally that is.
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