Posts Tagged ‘Republican strategist Karl Rove’

Will Be Bipartisan Conviction in the Senate… Karl Rove, long known as George W. Bush’s puppet master, has a new book coming out entitled Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight. In the book, Karl Rove claims that Bush didn’t lie to get us into a war with Iraq. One quote from the book states “Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it. Congress was very unlikely to have supported the use-of-force resolution without the threat of WMD. The Bush administration itself would probably have sought other ways to constrain Saddam, bring about regime change, and deal with Iraq’s horrendous human rights violations.” WMD, of course an acronym-turned-platitude for “weapons of mass destruction,” were nowhere to be found in Iraq according to an official CIA report back in 2005. The US, long known to…