A student of history, Rove is obviously also up on his Orwell: “Who controls the past, controls the future.” Unfortunately for Rove, this isn’t 1984; we now live in the Age of Google, and YouTube, and Lexis-Nexis searches. So the refutation of his lies is just a click away. The evidence that it was President Bush and Vice President Cheney — and not Congress — who were hungry for war is overwhelming. For starters, we have Bush’s own words before the vote, when he explicitly told Congress that “it’s in our national interest” to get the vote “done as quickly as possible.” And the insistence of then-Secretary of Defense Rumsfeld that “delaying a vote in Congress would send the wrong message.” And the words of then-Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle who says that when he asked Bush in September 2002 why there was such a rush for a vote on Iraq the president “looked at Cheney and he looked at me, and there was a half-smile on his face. And he said: ‘We just have to do this now.’”
November 29, 2007 5:24 AM
