He can't fool us now...

The American people are slowly waking up

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No one will talk about it. The private Bush admin mantra and way of business was always that facts didn't matter. They could say whatever they wanted to be true, and you could sit there ("revisionists can quibble") and point out how it is not true, but they've already gotten their message out to a wider audience than you ever will and they have already moved on to the next "reality" they want to create. They don't speak for anyone who knows the facts or anyone who will check the facts. They speak for those who will parrot them because they speak from authority... including the media who will do so. They speak to the national myth gestalt.

But still.. few people will talk about all of this, despite the fact that it is something the admin never cared to hide all that well.

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Bill Clinton told Iowans Tuesday that he Opposed the war in Iraq from the beginning. This is a major flip flop that may hurt his wives campaign. A campaign that has been constantly accused of riding the fence on every issue till she can calculate which way the political wind is blowing.
This dust up about a political has-been is only to toss up a smoke screen while the Clintons shuck and jive. Same song second verse.

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... but only one word comes to mind.

Un - FUKKIN' - believable.

Karl Rove is a national disgrace. If Newsweek has a shred of journalistic integrity left in them they will drop Rove like the steaming lump of turd blossom he is.

Good grief... there ought to be a deafening condemnation of this from the Democrats. In fact, if there's a Congressional resolution to be made, let's forget "Petrayus/Betrayus", let's forget "Rush Limbaugh", let's forget the "Iran terrorists". We have the architect of the biggest foreign policy debacle in American history now trying to rewrite that history.

Condemn him. By resolution. Then kick his sorry ass off the Newsweek payroll. Then, will somebody please hand him a towel so he can wipe the blood of almost 4000 American soldiers and upwards of a million Iraqis off of his grabbastic pudgy little hands?

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Shit-for-brains rove. Just like his cohorts and bosses.
A freak.

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I got this email address on the Internet by searching for the Editor of Newsweek. I sent him an email and it didn't bounce back, so it goes somewhere; I cannot promise where.

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I sent an email to him saying in part that I will read right wing columnists to give fair hearing to the other side, but I will not in any way support or read a publication that thinks Karl Rove is an acceptable person to be given a platform for his lies. He is an immoral liar. In this case about the Iraq war, there is much evidence to prove that this statement is an outright lie. Goodbye Newsweek: you have just become shamelessly complicit in providing a platform for Karl Rove. Sure, write about him. Provide short quotations when appropriate, but giving him his own column sends the wrong message.

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You can comment on his website....

http://www.charlierose.com/home

Please, everyone... be civil. Everybody's got to earn a living. I haven't read very deep into the comments but it looks as if he's taking a beating on this. If you join the beaters, please be fair.

-Wexler

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to Iraq - with Rummy supplied body armor.

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As usual, Rove has seized upon a small sliver of truth and distorted it beyond all recognition. Here's the facts, and they're borne out by a close review of the news clippings in 2002:

Bush wanted to go to war and he didn't want to wait any longer than he did, but he didn't initially want to put it to a vote by Congress. He argued he didn't need one, because he felt the authorization given to his daddy for Desert Storm still essentially applied. I suspect he did this because he feared that Afghanistan would be approved, but Iraq would not. A number of folks in Congress, including Joe Biden, disagreed vehemently with Bush's interpretation of the need for authorization, saying a resolution was needed or Bush would risk facing another Gulf of Tonkin-type situation.

Bush eventually tested the waters, realized he had the votes in Congress to succeed even if Iraq was thrown in, and decided to work with Congress on a resolution. Rove clearly wanted to be thrown into that brier patch, and he promptly seized upon the resolution as an opening for a wedge issue and bragged loudly about how the GOP was going to use it to hang the war around Democrats' necks in 2006.

But there's no way Congress "rushed" Bush into the war, no matter how cleverly Karl Rove spins it. As was once said of Henry Clay, Rove "stinks and he shines, like a dead mackerel in the moonlight" If only he would sleep with the fishes.

BTW, remember that this is the same Karl Rove whom another former White House aide - Scott McClellan - is saying misled him on outing Valerie Plame. This White House is a nest of liars.

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What do you expect to come from a guy who can draw 29.9 inches of mercury. Even not in the white house that big sucking noise is Karl Rove servicing G.W.Bush. The Biggest liers are the ones who are building Libraries to help rewrite history and hold all there untruths.

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