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Karl Rove: I wasn’t George Bush’s brain; strategist defends ex-president’s intellect
MSNBC ^ | March 5, 2010 | Mike Celizic

Posted on 03/06/2010 3:44:14 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

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To: WesternPacific

I thought that I was paying close attention, but I did not ever hear Pres. Bush assert as incontrovertible fact that Saddam Hussein has a heap of functional and deployable WMD.
However, I do have a file of published statements of many high ranking members of The Congress and cabinet members, both Rep. & Dem. that did so state, or very nearly so, during late 1990s and early 2000s.
And, not to put too fine a point on the matter, but a single 20 liter carboy of certain chemical substances can constitute a WMD. I seem to recall that some such discovery occurred in Iraq.


21 posted on 03/06/2010 4:31:26 PM PST by Elsiejay (.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

“blames himself for not pushing back against claims that President George W. Bush had taken the country to war under false pretenses,”

This was his and W’s major shortcoming on many issues.


22 posted on 03/06/2010 4:33:38 PM PST by Rennes Templar
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To: hstacey
Yes but he got a “C” in one of his classes...Shame on him!!! LOL.

Sometimes known, particularly in the Ivy League schools, as gentlemanly "C's". Obama, on the other hand who supposedly attended Columbia, and later Harvard ... refuses to release his grades. Liberal MSM has no issue with this small irregularity ... why?

23 posted on 03/06/2010 4:34:41 PM PST by BluH2o
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To: Maverick68

You are right. Who can claim he’s more intelligent? He has nothing to show for his first year.


24 posted on 03/06/2010 4:34:43 PM PST by tirednvirginia
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Rove depicts Bush as a courageous and resolute leader whose conduct in office was forever shaped by the Sept. 11 attacks. He calls Bush's achievements over two terms “impressive, durable and significant” and says many of the controversies that weakened his presidency were falsehoods perpetuated by political opponents.

100% agreed.

Bush & Rove...both good, good men.

25 posted on 03/06/2010 4:34:50 PM PST by what's up
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To: Qwackertoo
What about the yellow cake? Has the average sheeple of an American voting public ever even heard of that?

No, to busy watching the latest sports, sitcom or other such Pablum for the socialist masses, you are here because you are a cut above.

I wish I kept the link...

When Google first got their google earth up it was just before the Iraq invasion. They hired this brainiac 20 something PHD to run the bird in space. Board one time running it if focuses on a convoy, you guessed it from Iraq to Syria.

He was interviewed by I can't remember who, but it was indepth, he saw it in real time.

But with the Liberal Pukes running Google, my guess is if their is records of his scans they have been scrubbed cleaner than if Rosemary Wood's did it herself...

26 posted on 03/06/2010 4:40:30 PM PST by taildragger (Palin/Mulally 2012)
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To: Qwackertoo
What about the yellow cake? Has the average sheeple of an American voting public ever even heard of that?

No, to busy watching the latest sports, sitcom or other such Pablum for the socialist masses, you are here because you are a cut above.

I wish I kept the link...

When Google first got their google earth up it was just before the Iraq invasion. They hired this brainiac 20 something PHD to run the bird in space. Board one time running it if focuses on a convoy, you guessed it from Iraq to Syria.

He was interviewed by I can't remember who, but it was indepth, he saw it in real time.

But with the Liberal Pukes running Google, my guess is if their is records of his scans they have been scrubbed cleaner than if Rosemary Wood's did it herself...

27 posted on 03/06/2010 4:41:02 PM PST by taildragger (Palin/Mulally 2012)
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To: Qwackertoo
What about the yellow cake? Has the average sheeple of an American voting public ever even heard of that?

No, to busy watching the latest sports, sitcom or other such Pablum for the socialist masses, you are here because you are a cut above.

I wish I kept the link...

When Google first got their google earth up it was just before the Iraq invasion. They hired this brainiac 20 something PHD to run the bird in space. Board one time running it if focuses on a convoy, you guessed it from Iraq to Syria.

He was interviewed by I can't remember who, but it was indepth, he saw it in real time.

But with the Liberal Pukes running Google, my guess is if their is records of his scans they have been scrubbed cleaner than if Rosemary Wood's did it herself...

28 posted on 03/06/2010 4:41:03 PM PST by taildragger (Palin/Mulally 2012)
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To: tirednvirginia
He has nothing to show for his first year.

He owns the banks, and a couple of car companies.

AND, even worse, he's within a month of owning the insurance companies AND us.

29 posted on 03/06/2010 4:43:04 PM PST by Balding_Eagle (If America falls, darkness will cover the face of the earth for a thousand years.)
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To: Eagles6
Where there is smoke there is fire.Most Intelligence services concurred with the CIA that Saddam had WMD.I believe the Russians helped Saddam by using Spetsnaz to move WMD to the Bekka Valley right before the invasion. Why?Maybe because the Russians supplied many of the components.
30 posted on 03/06/2010 4:43:54 PM PST by Apercu ("A man's character is his fate" - Heraclitus)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Ah but! Rove had the weather making machine which also made people say and do crazy things!

Wish I could borrow the keys to that.

31 posted on 03/06/2010 4:48:33 PM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
From the article:

In the run-up to the war, Bush and his national security team, including Vice President Dick Cheney, attempted to link Saddam Hussein to the attacks as a way to build support for the invasion.

(RR)There you go again...
I remember the Dems accusing Bush/Cheney of trying to tie 9/11 to Saddam, and I remember Bush/Cheney publicly denying a link, but I do not ever remember Bush/Cheney actually linking 9/11 to Saddam.

32 posted on 03/06/2010 4:55:36 PM PST by Tex-Con-Man
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To: Qwackertoo

“Zactly.


33 posted on 03/06/2010 4:58:04 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: fred2008

I know they found aphids which contain uranium.


34 posted on 03/06/2010 5:08:24 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: Elsiejay
And, not to put too fine a point on the matter, but a single 20 liter carboy of certain chemical substances can constitute a WMD. I seem to recall that some such discovery occurred in Iraq.

During my son's first deployment, he wrote me that they had found containers of Sarin gas. Never heard it reported in the LSM.

35 posted on 03/06/2010 5:08:52 PM PST by WesternPacific (Deafness has its Advantages)
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To: Apercu

Yep.


36 posted on 03/06/2010 5:08:56 PM PST by Eagles6 ( Typical White Guy: Christian, Constitutionalist, Heterosexual, Redneck.)
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To: Maverick68
“There is no evidence whatsoever that hussein obama is more intelligent than George W., OR Palin for that matter.”

There's plenty of evidence he's denser than a box of rocks. Just listen to him for ten minutes without his teleprompter.

37 posted on 03/06/2010 5:18:46 PM PST by bitterohiogunclinger (America held hostage - day 393)
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To: WesternPacific

Don’t forget the unrelenting media campaign. It is tough for many to get beyond that.


38 posted on 03/06/2010 5:27:18 PM PST by FreedomPoster (No Representation without Taxation!)
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To: nkycincinnatikid

Bush was not dumb. Problem is, he tried to be too clever. He and Rove thought they could outfox the Democrats with compassionate conservatism. Co-opt the liberal agenda with No Child Left Behind and the new Medicare entitlement.

The slick strategery may have temporarily boosted Bush in the polls, but the long term result was a political and policy disaster. No Child is disdained by both left and right for its government intrusion and rigid top-down rules. The Bush Medicare scheme and other big spending are condemned by the Tea Party and conservative Republicans. As Bush lost support because of the declining economy, he also lost support among conservatives. His ratings went down the tubes.

That’s what you get for being too cute by half.


39 posted on 03/06/2010 5:36:16 PM PST by heye2monn
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To: Maverick68
There is no evidence whatsoever that hussein obama is more intelligent than George W., OR Palin for that matter...

Obama's intelligence is in the eye of the bedazzled lamestream media.

It is just visual effects.

40 posted on 03/06/2010 5:51:58 PM PST by citizencon
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