White House aide Karl Rove witch-hunts Iraq war opponents

[IndianaGreen]

White House aide Karl Rove witch-hunts Iraq war opponents
By Patrick Martin
25 June 2005

In a heavy-handed effort to intimidate opponents of the US wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, top White House political aide Karl Rove delivered a speech Wednesday in New York City that all but accused critics of these wars of giving aid and comfort to the terrorists. Rove declared that while the Bush administration responded to the 9/11 attacks by waging war, liberals responded by offering “therapy and understanding for our attackers.”

He denounced recent comments by Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois, who compared the methods used at the US detention camp at Guantánamo Bay to those of fascist and Stalinist dictatorships. The previous day, Durbin had made a sniveling recantation on the floor of the Senate.

Noting that Durbin’s original statement had been rebroadcast on Al Jazeera, Rove said it was “certainly putting America’s men and women in uniform in greater danger.” He concluded, “No more needs to be said about the motives of liberals.”

These remarks were a calculated political provocation. Rove delivered them to a convention of the Conservative Party of New York, a rump organization of ultra-rightists that generally lends its line on the statewide ballot to Republican candidates. He spoke in Manhattan, traditionally a stronghold of Democratic Party liberalism, only a few miles from the World Trade Center site where nearly 3,000 people died.

http://www.wsws.org/articles/2005/jun2005/rove-j25.shtml

[Demeter]

1. WHO Is Giving Aid and Comfort To the Terrorists, Rove?

Who left all that explosive unguarded in Iraq, while protecting the Oil Ministry?

Who tortured and killed prisoners, and holds people indefinitely for no good (read: Legal) reason?

Who throws American taxpayer money around like it was water in the ocean, instead of like water in the desert?

Who put fellow citizens in a police state and destroyed the Constitution?

Who generates YEARS of material for comedians around the world of every persuasion except their own?

Who indulges in slander, libel, lies and statistics on an hourly basis, yet has no capacity to understand or deal with Reality OR Science OR Economics OR any other non-faith-based discipline?

WHO Put US TROOPS IN DANGER?

Take a good look in the mirror, Karl.

[ailsagirl]

2. Just when you think they can't get any dirtier... voila!!

Like we weren't united after 9/11 ?? Oh pu-LEASE.

No one is gonna buy that crap-- what a flagrant LIE.

And anyone who agrees with him is living in lala land
:crazy:

How transparent must they become before those who haven't
a clue GET IT?????
:spank:

[Helga Scow Stern]

3. kick.