Rove's newfound honesty
23 Apr
Rove took some time out from hiding emails last week to give a press conference:
In a question-and-answer period after his speech, Rove was asked whose idea it was to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq.
"I think it was Osama bin Laden's,'' Rove replied.
Ok, somebody turn on the VCR ‘cuz I’m only a’gonna say this once – I totally agree with Rove! The war in Iraq monumentally eclipses 9-11 as bin Laden’s crowning achievement. What better way to succeed than by turning your two biggest enemies against one another?
On a side note, Jane Stillwater has a good explanation for why the official body count is lower in Iraq than Vietnam.
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Re: Rove's newfound honesty
Good point. This from my blog The lessons of war from last November.
Had we not felt compelled to exercise our military might and invade ..:namespace prefix = st1 ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />Iraq in response to 9/11 -- an action one commentator said was the equivalent of America attacking Thailand instead of Japan after Pearl Harbor -- we would not be in the quagmire we now find ourselves. Indeed, it seems that we have played into bin Laden's hands ... . Documents captured since 9/11 showed that bin Laden hoped that his acts of terrorism would provoke the United States into an invasion and costly occupation. His only error was that he thought that the place where Americans would get stuck would be Afghanistan, like the Soviets had done decades earlier. Afghanistan did not really go the way bin Laden hoped, but we have more than made up for that failure in al-Qaeda's strategy by now giving it Iraq.
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..:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />In Ron Suskind's The One Percent Doctrine, he quotes Jami Miscik, CIA deputy associate director for intelligence, stating that bin Laden recognized that Bush's Iraq policy served al-Qaeda's strategic goals for recruiting a new generation of jihadists. "Certainly," Miscik said, "he [bin Laden] would want Bush to keep doing what he's doing for a few more years." It seems that, in the immortal words of the old comic strip character, Pogo, we have met the enemy and he is us.