The Architect and the War

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The Architect and the War
Karl Rove played a key role in the selling of the Iraq War, which may help explain why he’s still bullish on the ultimate outcome, no matter how grim the news.


Web-Exclusive Commentary
By Michael Isikoff
Newsweek
Updated: 3:35 p.m. ET Aug 13, 2007

Aug. 13, 2007 - In the summer of 2003, Karl Rove flew off to Bohemian Grove—the famed male-only retreat for the wealthy and powerful—where he had a revealing exchange in the Northern California woods about the state of affairs in Iraq. Spotting AOL founder James Kimsey, a big financial backer of President Bush who had just gotten back from Baghdad, Rove shouted out: “Hey Kimsey, it must have been wonderful to see the happy faces on all those liberated Iraqis!”

Kimsey was appalled. “Are you nuts?” he replied. He tried to tell the president’s political guru that the Iraqis he saw were sullen and resentful and that “if we don’t do something soon, all hell is going to break loose.”

But Rove wanted to hear nothing of it. “Nice talking to you,” Rove responded and walked away.

That exchange (recounted in the new afterword to the paperback edition of "Hubris: The Inside Story of Spin, Scandal and the Selling of the Iraq War," the book I co-wrote with David Corn, tells much about the brook-no-dissent ethos that Rove brought to the Bush White House. It also puts in some context Rove’s cheery comments this weekend to friendly journalist Paul Gigot, the editorial page director of the Wall Street Journal, as he announced his surprise resignation from the White House (and his plans to write a book on the Bush presidency). “Iraq will be in a better place,” as the surge continues, he said. As for President Bush’s political standing, “he will move back up in the polls.”

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[partylessinOhio]

1. Rove is pure BS! He should be hung for what he did to Iraq and America.

He is a pompous a$$.

[Riverman]

2. Rove is as Guilty as any Nazi who did anything to help his Fueher get elected and

Stay in power. Most evil of his crimes is that he exploited emotions of 9/11 as a basis for invading Iraq that has resulted in the deaths of 3,500 american, at least, teh slaughter of untold hundreds of thousands of Iraqis, leaving a legacy of widespread depleted uranium which will cause misery and deaths for geneations, not to mention the fostering of murderous clan retributions, and widespread hatred of all Americans worldwide. What a legacy! Who cares about the destroyed Republican party, the spineless democrats have not taken advantage of that weakness. They have been accomplices in this human tragedy of global and historical proportions. Rove needs be brought to court in an international tribunal - like Nuremburg, convicted and executed for his crimes against humanity.