Why is Bush afraid to let Rove testify under oath?

[ck4829]

Ooh, I know, it's because Rove is physically and mentally unable to tell the truth, right?

"Does not compute. Does not compute."

[paulk]

1. being under oath is not the important part

it's the transcript that's important.

It's still a crime to lie to Congress, whether under an oath or not. The transcript is needed to prove that crime.

[gulliver]

5. True, but the oath is still important, IMO.

If it is found that Rove lied, it is more damning for him to have lied under oath to Congress than just to have lied to Congress. The "oath is not needed because..." argument is a right wing talking point.

[Turbineguy]

2. I don't think he's so much afraid

as he sincerely (and simply) believes he's trustworthy.

Most of the world thinks Rove is a liar. Bush does not.

[leftyladyfrommo]

4. I don't believe that. I think (my two bits worth) that they are both

huge liars and neither one of them wants what really went on to come out - especially after all the awful behind the scenes stuff that came out about Cheney.

Makes them all look like the total, manipulative assholes they are.

[tridim]

6. That's impossible, even for a dolt like Bush

There's no way Rove could be mistaken for honest, he was hired because he's a world class liar and cheat. That's his job!

[tanyev]

3. Did you see the episode of The Daily Show where they showed what happened

last time Rove swore on the Bible? They had an image of an open Bible with a scorched hand print on one of the pages.

:rofl:

[libodem]

7. If he doesn't have anything to hide?

that's the big answer for having the the alphabet agencies listen to our phone calls without warrents.

[Marrak]

8. It's that, coupled with the "unitary executive" b.s dodge...

compounded by churchill jr.'s pathological defiance when forced to confront reality...

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[whistle]

9. Well, if KKKarl Rove is like he claims he is, "Bush's brain"...

....so if separated, it is Shrub* who would be unable to function or is that in fact true?

<snip>
Life <Bush> Without Brain

A heroine in Tarantino's Curdled was so eager to know whether a human head will be able to speak after it is cut that she couldn't rest until she ascertained it herself. As they say, this is a creative fantasy. But how it actually happens in fact? Is it a true axiom that says a human body cannot live without brain and dies almost instantly when the brain stops functioning? It is known that body of a decapitated chicken can move for some time. This fact cannot be explained with reflex actions, as clonus commands originate from the brain. Probably, the head of a chicken is not so perfect as a human head. Can similar things happen with humans?

Any doctor knows that when the head is separated from the human body, the heart inside of this body still continues functioning for some time. It means that agonies of the body are still possible after decapitation, but it's generally believed that a headless body cannot perform movements. Once the St.Petersburg press reported about a man who gathered mushrooms in the forest and found an explosive device. The man took the devilish device; and an explosion that sounded next tore his head off. Witnesses saw that the decapitated mushroomer managed somehow to walk 200 meters more, at that his 3-meter way was along a narrow plank across a brook.

WWII soldiers told they saw bodies of their comrades continued attacks on the enemy while their heads were hanging by a thread or were torn off by shells. History tells lots of phenomena of this kind. Witnesses told they saw an executioner holding the head of a just guillotined woman, the eyes and the mouth of the victim were open wide at that. It is strange but the victim's brain was still functioning for some time, and the mouth opened as if the woman cried.
<more macabre stories>

http://wintersteel.homestead.com/Life_Without_Brain.html

[opihimoimoi]

10. WHY???? Its the Cornered Rat Syndrome....LOL Rove knows where the bodies are buried...dats why?

[Orsino]

11. Whitewater showed us how an investigation can wander...

..and anywhere you turn in the * Administration, you're gonna find dirt. A man like Rove would have to take the Fifth if you asked him about the weather.

[ClintonTyree]

12. Rove is the sort of person Scientists like to call........

"a lying sack of shit". Also, 95% of Scientists polled agree that Rove, "wouldn't know the truth if it bit him in the ass". I just love all of that technical, scientific talk. ;)