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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKarl Rove on Bush legacy: “He got the big things right”
He kept us safe after 9/11, he moved to modernize our tools, provide the tools to fight terror, he called terror for what it was, he tackled the big issues of trying to reform Social Security, Medicare, immigration, education, Rove tells Politics Confidential, standing outside the new Bush library and museum.
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I do believe that the Iraq War was the right thing to do and the world is a safer place for having Saddam Hussein gone, says Rove, who points out that there was a bipartisan consensus that Hussein had WMDs before the U.S. entered the war ten years ago.
On the topic of the 2008 financial crisis that resulted in the greatest U.S. economic recession since the Great Depression, he says President Bush is not at fault.
I'll tell you what it is: it is a 20 year history of letting these two institutions get out of control, says Rove.
Rove loosely faults those who let the countrys financial institutions get over leveraged, and specifically identifies Sen. Chris Dodd (D-Conn.) and other Senate Democrats for threatening to veto a regulatory bill in 2005 that he says would have reined in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/power-players-abc-news/karl-rove-bush-legacy-got-big-things-111551272.html
HughBeaumont
(24,461 posts)Listening to Repub revisionist history is like sitting through a marathon of An American Carol.
Cooley Hurd
(26,877 posts)Of course, HIS foreign policy disasters are what the Tsaraevs named as reasons for their bombing spree.
leveymg
(36,418 posts)City Lights
(25,171 posts)Turdblossom, you're
RC
(25,592 posts)Start with his part in the election frauds in 2000. Then continue on to more of the same in 2004.
Johonny
(20,684 posts)he got the big things right. He got money out of your hands and into our rich friends hands.
What good is being save from terror when you have no job, home or expectations of a better future?