Posted on 07/14/2010 6:34:58 PM PDT by GOP_Lady
Failing to refute charges that Bush lied us into war has hurt our country.
Seven years ago today, in a speech on the Iraq war, Sen. Ted Kennedy fired the first shot in an all-out assault on President George W. Bush's integrity. "All the evidence points to the conclusion," Kennedy said, that the Bush administration "put a spin on the intelligence and a spin on the truth." Later that day Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle told reporters Mr. Bush needed "to be forthcoming" about the absence of weapons of mass destruction (WMD).
Thus began a shameful episode in our political life whose poisonous fruits are still with us.
The next morning, Democratic presidential candidates John Kerry and John Edwards joined in. Sen. Kerry said, "It is time for a president who will face the truth and tell the truth." Mr. Edwards chimed in, "The administration has a problem with the truth."
The battering would continue, and it was a monument to hypocrisy and cynicism. All these Democrats had said, like Mr. Bush did, that Saddam Hussein possessed WMD. Of the 110 House and Senate Democrats who voted in October 2002 to authorize the use of force against his regime, 67 said in congressional debate that Saddam had these weapons. This didn't keep Democrats from later alleging something they knew was false—that the president had lied America into war.
Senate Intelligence Chairman Bob Graham organized a bipartisan letter in December 2001 warning Mr. Bush that Saddam's "biological, chemical and nuclear weapons programs . . . may be back to pre-Gulf War status," and enhanced by "longer-range missiles that will threaten the United States and our allies." Yet two years later, he called for Mr. Bush's impeachment for having said Saddam had WMD.
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He should have used some of that classic Rove-Jitsu on them and turned it back on them as a question of their own intelligence and fitness to serve the American people.
One of the dumbest episodes ever was taking back the reference to the ‘yellow cake’.
The facts were on President Bush’s side and why he took back that reference is inexplicable.
Is it fair to impugn Ted Kennedy and John Edwards?
Kennedy was, in fact, and agent of the USSR and SVK
like so many in the DNC.
And Edwards had an excuse. He was so busy
as “Father of the Year”.
This needed to be done years ago...
Bush didn’t let America down. America let Bush down.
My heart mourns for him and what Obama, Pelosi and vile Democrats did and still do.
Sorry Karl, you SCREWED US OVER on Immigration - that was your BIGGEST MISTAKE, as it demoralized the Republicans so much that we didn’t bother voting in 2006 or 2008 (or didn’t in the usual numbers).
Now we have Health Care, Banking Bill, probably Cap and Trade and Amnesty.
YOU WERE HORRIBLE.
Now he grows a pair of stones!
God, I miss Reagan.
NO FOOLIN'!
Yup. Another dishpan handed, elite Rockefeller republican.
Now that Rove has gotten that off his chest I hope he can put on his visionary hat and chart a new course for 2010 and beyond.
The rear view mirror has 20/20 vision.
I have to agree with this assessment.
I also wish Bush would have used the veto to stop Congressional Democrats from their spending spree.
The “new tone” was the biggest mistake. You can’t make nice with a den of piranhas. Anyone pressuring the Bamster to take a “new tone” was us? HA!
“And Edwards had an excuse. He was so busy as ‘Father of the Year’”.
LOL! Love it. :)
Look what “the Architect” built.
No thanks. Let his stay on Fox counting election tallies. We've had enough of his vision.
“God, I miss Reagan.”
Who doesn’t? :(
That’s chocolate in a glass of WHAT?
So Rove is admitting that he counseled GWBush to not fight back at the false dummy allegations??? Gee thanks, Karl. Do you feel better now?
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