Insiders Blame Rove for Covering Up Iraq’s Real WMD

The Daily Beast ^ | October 16, 2014 | by Eli Lake

[Diogenesis]

Why?
Rove worked with Romney to sack Gov. Palin on the eve
of Election 2008.

[Diogenesis]

Rove lied, FREEDOM died.

[driftless2]

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.

[sarasmom]

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?

[tanknetter]

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.

[CincyRichieRich]

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.

[Jabba the Nutt]

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.

[Intolerant in NJ]

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.....

[McGruff]

Rove is a traitor to the Republican Party!!!!!

[alstewartfan]

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.