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The big lie, of course was that Congress that rushed to have a vote on the Iraq war before the 2002 elections. The blogs quickly refuted that gem of truth-twisting with ample evidence to the contrary, including links to White House press releases.
Appearing on the Charlie Rose program Rove said:
“The administration was opposed to voting on it in the fall of 2002,”
ROSE: But you were opposed to the vote.
ROVE: It happened. We don’t determine when the Congress vote on things. The Congress does.
ROSE: You wish it hadn’t happened at that time. You would have preferred it did not happen at that time.
ROVE: That’s right.
Now, you would think that Rove, the supposed genius, would have given up that piece of revisionist history and moved on to a more palatable and less obvious lie.Nope, he just told another lie about the first lie!
Today, the turd boy made an appearance on the Fox News Channel Sunday program.
Representative Chris Van Hollen, also a guest on the show, called Rove on his BS. Rove's response:
KARL ROVE: No, that’s not what I said. What I said was that the general conventional wisdom was that the President was the only person pushing the Congress to vote on the war resolution before the November election, and that’s simply not true.
Here is the problem folks. This is a pattern with this administration. They just make stuff up and the American people are either too dumb, disinterested or partisan to weed out the truth.
(And I know, Bill Clinton said this week that he opposed the Iraq war from the beginning. He can nuance it anyway he wants, but he didn't stand up at the time and say "THIS IS A MISTAKE" and he is as rewriting history in my view. However, he wasn't President during the Iraq debacle. Bush was. Gore loudly and forcefully opposed the war in Iraq. Here is a text of a speech that Gore gave that is amazing in that everything he said would go wrong, DID.
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002-09-23-gore-text_x.htm
Whats next? Bush wanted to give the WMD inspectors more time but the Congress made him go to war in Iraq?
Don't be surprised when you hear talk about how Bush wanted to end the Iraq war, but the Congress kept funding it. What could he do?
Bush wanted to help the returning vets, but the Democrats tied his hands.
Can't wait to see the new George W. Bush library. All fiction.
Nonstop Theft and Bribery Are Staggering Iraq
BAGHDAD, Dec. 1 — Jobless men pay $500 bribes to join the police. Families build houses illegally on government land, carwashes steal water from public pipes, and nearly everything the government buys or sells can now be found on the black market.
Painkillers for cancer (from the Ministry of Health) cost $80 for a few capsules; electricity meters (from the Ministry of Electricity) go for $200 each, and even third-grade textbooks (stolen from the Ministry of Education) must be bought at bookstores for three times what schools once charged.
“Everyone is stealing from the state,” said Adel Adel al-Subihawi, a prominent Shiite tribal leader in Sadr City, throwing up his hands in disgust. “It’s a very large meal, and everyone wants to eat.”
Corruption and theft are not new to Iraq, and government officials have promised to address the problem. But as Iraqis and American officials assess the effects of this year’s American troop increase, there is a growing sense that, even as security has improved, Iraq has slipped to new depths of lawlessness.
One recent independent analysis ranked Iraq the third most corrupt country in the world. Of 180 countries surveyed, only Somalia and Myanmar were worse, according to Transparency International, a Berlin-based group that publishes the index annually.
And the extent of the theft is staggering. Some American officials estimate that as much as a third of what they spend on Iraqi contracts and grants ends up unaccounted for or stolen, with a portion going to Shiite or Sunni militias. In addition, Iraq’s top anticorruption official estimated this fall — before resigning and fleeing the country after 31 of his agency’s employees were killed over a three-year period — that $18 billion in Iraqi government money had been lost to various stealing schemes since 2004.
But at least indie616,
They have Bu$h's form of government to Oilraq..........
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