1. CREATE DIVISION IN THE ADMINISTRATION. (Look at this...Rove supposedly griping about Powell, Cheney hell-bent, Rove making a Nazi comment).
2. BRING DOWN BUSH APPROVAL RATINGS BY HINTING HE COULD HAVE PREVENTED 9/11.
Woodward has this nifty little trick of going "inside the mind" and inferring he has been told this. I don't believe it for a minute, and I don't care what he says, unless he has it on tape I am not believing Rove made that comment.
Our work is never done. We are always having to watch these people.
I am also convinced that Deep Throat will turn out to be a composite of information rather than one person. A literary straw man created for effect.