Rove-"we need to win the hearts and minds of mod. Muslim governments"

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,185860,00.html

Transcript of Tony snow and Karl Rove interview:

SNOW: Okay, so we've got the review process. You think the whole thing, though — you feel pretty confident that the deal's eventually going to go through.

ROVE: It's important to the United States, it's important to our standing in the world that the message be that if you are an ally of the United States, an important partner in the war against terror, that we will treat you fairly and equally.

And it's also important that the message be that — within — we're not going to win the war on terror by ourselves. We need — we need to win the hearts and minds of moderate Muslim governments and Muslims around the world. And this just sends a very bad signal that a partner of the United States would be ill-treated, unfairly treated, particularly when the concerns, from our perspective, are not justified. People have raised an issue about security. That is entirely appropriate. But upon examination, it's not the company that's in charge of security, it's the United States —

SNOW: Yeah.

ROVE: — government that's in charge of security. We ask them to do things, we monitor those things, but ultimately it's the Coast Guard and the Customs, which are in charge of each one of these operations at our ports — .........

[tularetom]

1. Anybody remember what * did to Customs and CG

in the proposed budget? Seems to me they got slashed in favor of more $ for Iraq Nam. Just wondering after hearing all day that these agencies, NOT UAE would be responsible for port security.

[ncteechur]

2. Can someone call Karl Rove on the phone and tell him he is full of shit!

Lou Dobbs cleared all this up tonight and I trust him shit loads more than * or KKKarl Rove.