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Insiders Blame Rove for Covering Up Iraq’s Real WMD
The Daily Beast ^
| October 16, 2014
| by Eli Lake
Posted on 10/16/2014 4:54:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer
Theres one man, some Republicans say, who kept the public from learning about the chemical shells littered around the Iraqi battlefield. He was Bush's most important political adviser.
Starting in 2004, some members of the George W. Bush administration and Republican lawmakers began to find evidence of discarded chemical weapons in Iraq. But when the information was brought up with the White House, senior adviser Karl Rove told them to let these sleeping dogs lie.
The issue of Iraqs WMD remnant was suddenly thrust back into the fore this week, with a blockbuster New York Times report accusing the Bush administration of covering up American troops chemically-induced wounds.
To people familiar with the issue, both inside that administration and without, the blame for the cover up falls on one particular set of shoulders: Roves.
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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: New York
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To: BfloGuy
Why?
Rove worked with Romney to sack Gov. Palin on the eve
of Election 2008.
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posted on
10/16/2014 5:54:01 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
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posted on
10/16/2014 5:54:01 PM PDT
by
Diogenesis
(The EXEMPT Congress is complicit in the absence of impeachment)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
So weapons inspector David Kay said the wmds found were less dangerous than what is under people’s sinks? Perhaps we can have Mr. Kay have his choice of being covered with Mr. Clean or the contents of one of the mustard shells.
To: Dark Knight
I agree.
We all knew all about this, at the time it was happening!
The media and politicians thought it was way more fun to continuously cover the antics of Code Pink and the like, instead of widely disseminating facts.
It's almost time for the media to explain away why that large Russian convoy that traveled to Syria didn't really happen again.
Assad took it in, but didn't use any of it, to date.
(That whole Chlorine gas attack meme consists of items openly available at all pool supply stores)
Now ISIS is reported to have it.
Did they capture the convoy of Iraq WMDs under Assad's control, or from the Russian's control in Syria?
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posted on
10/16/2014 6:00:20 PM PDT
by
sarasmom
(The Benghazi Brief – (Extortion 17 also partially explained))
To: Steve_Seattle
I agree, with one difference: if these chemical weapons were deemed to be random, aging, left-behind items, not some major stockpile, and if they had announced the finding of the weapons, the MSM would have ridiculed them and said they were exaggerating to save face, or even called them liars. People on this thread are forgetting that the media waged war on Bush for nine years (campaign plus two terms), and nothing he could have said would have changed their minds about WMD's.
That's my take as well. IIRC, once we got into Iraq and Baghdad we found all sorts of documentary evidence that Hussein didn't have an active program or active combat capability, but thought he could deter the US from liberating his country by acting like he did have one. As stated in the article "... these were not the weapons we were looking for."
This was just one of a long list of examples of Hussein having no clue what he was getting into. For example, leading into Desert Storm Bush had to fire the USAF Chief of Staff for publicly disclosing details of the pending air war. Hussein was apparently gleeful over this, because to him it meant that Bush was about to be overthrown in a military coup.
To: Oldeconomybuyer
I can’t stand the Bushes but why would Rove want to Mack Bush look bad...unless Bush, the idiot who would never communicate with us - gave up trying to explain WMD...but pictures would have nixed the libs and media whites. That leaves Rove.
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posted on
10/16/2014 6:14:45 PM PDT
by
CincyRichieRich
(In Times of Universal Deceit, Telling the Truth Becomes a Revolutionary Act.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Bush is responsible. Rove is a moron, but has been a Bush lackey for decades. Who is at fault?
Rove is responsible for his pathetic political results after spending hundreds of millions of dollars of his moronic donors.
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posted on
10/16/2014 8:18:46 PM PDT
by
Jabba the Nutt
(You can have a free country or government schools. Choose one.)
To: Oldeconomybuyer
But these weapons didn’t count as the WMD we went into Iraq to stop because they had been there for years and we never found an “active weapons” program - as though gun control nuts wouldn’t be outraged if you had a thousand AK-47’s stored in your garage as long as you weren’t buying a new one each week.....
To: Oldeconomybuyer
Rove is a traitor to the Republican Party!!!!!
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posted on
10/17/2014 9:52:31 AM PDT
by
McGruff
(The whole Omama Administration is a breach in protocol)
To: Jabba the Nutt
I think that Laura Bush also had a major role in the Bush Presidency becoming a disaster as well. I wouldn’t be surprised if she voted for Obama.
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posted on
10/17/2014 12:49:22 PM PDT
by
alstewartfan
("All is ordered and in its prime. No fear shall we know." Al Stewart from "Lord Salisbury")
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