{"id":4110,"date":"2007-11-28T10:55:09","date_gmt":"2007-11-28T16:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=4110"},"modified":"2021-05-20T19:40:05","modified_gmt":"2021-05-21T01:40:05","slug":"karl-rove-rewrites-history-congress-pushed-bush-to-war-in-iraq-prematurely","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2007\/11\/karl-rove-rewrites-history-congress-pushed-bush-to-war-in-iraq-prematurely\/","title":{"rendered":"Karl Rove rewrites history: &#8220;Congress Pushed Bush to War in Iraq Prematurely&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"imagelink\"  href=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/rovebush.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/11\/rovebush.thumbnail.jpg\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>Ariana Huffington\u00c2\u00a0Huffington Post<\/p>\n<p>During <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20150319123840\/http:\/\/www.charlierose.com\/shows\/2007\/11\/21\/1\/a-conversation-with-karl-rove\">an interview with Charlie Rose<\/a>, the erstwhile Boy Genius pulled out his bucket of whitewash and audaciously claimed that &#8220;one of the untold stories&#8221; about the war in Iraq is that the Bush administration had been &#8220;opposed&#8217; to Congress holding the vote authorizing the president to use military force in Iraq just a few weeks prior to the 2002 elections because &#8220;we thought it made it too political.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Too political? For Karl Rove? That&#8217;s like saying something was too bloody for Count Dracula.<\/p>\n<p>He went on to paint a picture of a White House pushed into war, and laid the blame for much of what has happened since on a Congress that had &#8220;made things move too fast.&#8221; If not for Congress, you see, there would have been more time for weapons inspections, and to build a broader coalition.<\/p>\n<p>It was a satiric tour de force worthy of Jonathan Swift or Stephen Colbert &#8212; but Rove wasn&#8217;t joking. He actually expected us to buy his load of b.s. Watching Rove, two things were perfectly clear: his disdain for the truth and his contempt for the American people know no bounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/arianna-huffington\/karl-roves-shameless-re_b_74499.html\">(Original Article)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ariana Huffington\u00c2\u00a0Huffington Post During an interview with Charlie Rose, the erstwhile Boy Genius pulled out his bucket of whitewash and audaciously claimed that &#8220;one of the untold stories&#8221; about the war in Iraq is that the Bush administration had been &#8220;opposed&#8217; to Congress holding the vote authorizing the president to use military force in Iraq&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":4111,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_kad_post_transparent":"","_kad_post_title":"","_kad_post_layout":"","_kad_post_sidebar_id":"","_kad_post_content_style":"","_kad_post_vertical_padding":"","_kad_post_feature":"","_kad_post_feature_position":"","_kad_post_header":false,"_kad_post_footer":false,"_kad_post_classname":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[122,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bush_era","category-impeachment-evidence"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Karl Rove rewrites history: &quot;Congress Pushed Bush to War in Iraq Prematurely&quot; &#8226; Impeach for Peace<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Citizen&#039;s impeach strategy. 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