Guest Opinion: Rove the war criminal
Issue date: 2/27/08 Section: Opinions
Most people in the know agree that Republican strategist Karl Rove has built his political career by lying, obfuscating, and spinning the truth and by running hit jobs and smear campaigns against anyone who gets in his way. The recent "60 Minutes" exposé on Rove's politicization of the U.S. Department of Justice was just the tip of the iceberg.
What is less-well known, however, is Rove's direct and intimate involvement with a neoconservative, far-right agenda to intentionally mislead the American people into a war for oil in Iraq. On Feb. 20, Rove told 1,200 students at the University of Pennsylvania that history gave America 9/11 so that the Bush administration could invade Iraq. "History has a funny way of deciding things," the Philadelphia Bulletin reported Rove as saying. "Sometimes history sends you things, and 9/11 came our way."
Rove has documented ties to the founding members of the Project for a New American Century think tank, an organization that, in 2000, released a report calling for the strategic realignment of U.S. military bases across the globe and regime change in Iraq. In its report, it wrote: "The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor."
Rove was appointed senior adviser to the president in January 2001. Plans to invade Iraq and sell off its oil fields to private investors were discussed during President Bush's very first Cabinet meeting, according to "60 Minutes." Maps of Iraqi oil fields were passed around at energy-policy meetings attended by Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney, according to the BBC and Judicial Watch. Videos from early 2001 of both Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice stating that Iraq was contained and no longer a threat are easily accessible on YouTube. Hours after 9/11, aides to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld recorded that he wanted "best info fast. Judge whether good enough hit S.H. at same time. Not only UBL? Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not," according to CBS News.
What is less-well known, however, is Rove's direct and intimate involvement with a neoconservative, far-right agenda to intentionally mislead the American people into a war for oil in Iraq. On Feb. 20, Rove told 1,200 students at the University of Pennsylvania that history gave America 9/11 so that the Bush administration could invade Iraq. "History has a funny way of deciding things," the Philadelphia Bulletin reported Rove as saying. "Sometimes history sends you things, and 9/11 came our way."
Rove has documented ties to the founding members of the Project for a New American Century think tank, an organization that, in 2000, released a report calling for the strategic realignment of U.S. military bases across the globe and regime change in Iraq. In its report, it wrote: "The process of transformation, even if it brings revolutionary change, is likely to be a long one, absent some catastrophic and catalyzing event - like a new Pearl Harbor."
Rove was appointed senior adviser to the president in January 2001. Plans to invade Iraq and sell off its oil fields to private investors were discussed during President Bush's very first Cabinet meeting, according to "60 Minutes." Maps of Iraqi oil fields were passed around at energy-policy meetings attended by Rove and Vice President Dick Cheney, according to the BBC and Judicial Watch. Videos from early 2001 of both Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice stating that Iraq was contained and no longer a threat are easily accessible on YouTube. Hours after 9/11, aides to Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld recorded that he wanted "best info fast. Judge whether good enough hit S.H. at same time. Not only UBL? Go massive. Sweep it all up. Things related and not," according to CBS News.
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Nile Williamson
posted 2/27/08 @ 8:32 AM CST
The author should have given a pseudonym such as George Orwell since his statesments are so far fetched and unducumented so as to constitute Orwelliun fiction. (Continued…)
taco
posted 2/27/08 @ 2:34 PM CST
Oh David Goodner, you are nothing if not predictable! I notice you don't seem to have updated your Des Moines Register blog since November. Is the DI the only Iowa print publication left-of-center enough to continue to give voice to your rantings on a daily basis?
For everyone's consideration, the personal pronoun "I" does not seem to appear anywhere in this "guest opinion". (Continued…)
Charlie
posted 2/27/08 @ 3:32 PM CST
David Goodner is correct in labeling Karl Rove a traitor to his country unworthy of the invitation and offer of $40,000 to speak at the University of Iowa. (Continued…)
Todd
posted 2/27/08 @ 4:03 PM CST
David Goodner is a well known anti-Semite in the Iowa City area. He's publically stated that terrorist groups such as Hamas and Hezbollah are "morally superior" to Israel. (Continued…)
Robert Berner
posted 2/27/08 @ 4:20 PM CST
By my lights, few if any speakers are worth a $40,000 honorarium. And Karl Rove absolutely isn't. But calling him a traitor or a war-criminal doesn't do anything for me either. (Continued…)
biggy
posted 2/27/08 @ 4:42 PM CST
nothing like free-speech liberals trying to silence others with opposing points of view. and of course they also label their opponents 'FASCISTS.'
boring and predictable. (Continued…)
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