Rove: most proud of how the Bush administration "kept the people safe"

[sabra]

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ioxirxjjPGEhCijjapQ-e7LiZZegD9ATHEA00

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When asked about his proudest and least proud moments during his time in the White House, he said he was most proud of how the Bush administration "kept the people safe."

He said he was least proud that he and others didn't oppose Democrats more fervently in 2003 when they said the president lied about Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction.

"We should have stood up and taken a two-by-four to them in a polite and respectful fashion," he said.

[mod mom]

1. Guess he forgot 911 occurred on their watch.

[polichick]

2. Just conveniently forgotten - what criminals! nt

[Echo In Light]

6. Conveniently orchestrated (PNAC)

[malaise]

7. And the anthrax attacks

Revisionism gone mad.

[BlooInBloo]

14. Yep. Even DUers help maintain the lie that we haven't been attacked since 9/11.

[mod mom]

15. Why doesn't the media call rove out on this every time he opens his lyin' mouth!

[Echo In Light]

18. Because it's the job of the M$M to protect the real terrorists in a phony war

[rurallib]

9. the magnificent response to disaster in NOLA

[elocs]

29. That was their freeby. Nobody said how big it could be.

Besides, even though Bush received a warning they did not give him the exact time, date, or place of the attack so what was he to do?

[Sal Minella]

3. As though anyone could ever feel "safe" with Dick Cheney

anywhere near the White House.

Ye Gods, does Rove really think people are that stupid???

[rd_kent]

4. Hmmm...Obama has kept the country free from attack LONGER the bush did!

bush only made it to sep 11th!

[HughBeaumont]

5. Uh . . .but the President DID lie . . .

. . . you fat yard-high pile of PIGSHIT!



Whatever. Eat some more burgers, pigshit.

Not to mention the whole "Bewsh Kept us safe" crap is not only FALSE but a fallacy of cause and effect. But I'm sure Rove is more than smart enough to figure out why.

Or not.

[LeftinOH]

8. Yes- they kept us safe for seven-and-a-half months; Obama has already gained on them-

[otohara]

10. More Iraq Lies, Forgot About Katrina Deaths

an administration in denial and lies - never ends.

[L. Coyote]

11. Yeah, Bush was mostly on vacation, his tax cuts destroyed the economy, and they let 9/11 happen

Where were these blow hards when they should have been preventing the worst terrorist attack in human history?

[Kingofalldems]

12. Freepers and disruptors love this guy

He is just as dishonest as they are.

[Botany]

13. Oh please

"He said he was least proud that he and others didn't oppose Democrats more fervently in 2003 when they said the president lied
about Iraq possessing weapons of mass destruction."

bush's 2003 SOTU

The International Atomic Energy Agency confirmed in the 1990s that Saddam Hussein had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear
weapon and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb.

The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa.

Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production.

[JHB]

16. ...unless you were in the military, or the WTC on 9/11, or NO after Katrina...

What is he claiming now, that Saddam gave all his WMDs to ACORN?

And I see, he's joining in on the eliminationist rhetoric. Two-by-four indeed.

[Indep in Oregon]

17. Oh Brother....

Kept the people safe huh....? We have corruptions throughout the border patrol, letting anyone in without checking what they might have with them as long as they pay up. I'm sorry but I don't exactly feel all warm and fuzzy about that. He had 6 years with a Republican majority and didn't take border patrol seriously and now it seems Obama will have to add that to his already full plate to fix.

And about the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. What weapons of mass destruction? I believe they beat that horse to death repeatedly and yet there still haven't been any found. So did Bush lie? I believe he truly thought there was WMDs there based on bad information but the truth is that IRAQ didn't have anything to do with 9/11 and we shouldn't have gone there.

[Botany]

21. Welcome to DU

"I believe he truly thought there was WMDs there ..."

Bush was told in person and his speech writers were told that the CIA could not guarantee that the statement that
" ...... that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa." was true. Matter of fact
a low level CIA person found a number of mistakes in the African Letter, that bush was citing as proof.


http://www.publicintegrity.org/projects/entry/276/ link to the 935 lies to by bush/Cheney/ Rice/Powell/Rummy and so to start the war in Iraq

[2Design]

19. But they didn't they got a lot of people killed here and abroad n/t

[lpbk2713]

20. A major US city was devastated while BushCo sat on their thumbs.

Shit-for- Brains was doing a heck of a job strumming his guitar and eating birthday cake while thousands suffered.

You call that safe, asshole? Well, yes, a lying criminal BushCo stooge like yourself probably would.

[Winterblues]

22. Until the Bush* Administration came along I laid awake nights worrying

the Iraqi Army and Air Force was going to be marching down my street and bombing my neighborhood. Thank dog Bush* and Rove prevented that from happening.

[yurbud]

23. kept us safe from their Saudi friends?

They sent an agent to pick up two of the 9/11 hijackers at LAX, had him set the two up in an apartment, and then he funneled them checks from the Saudi ambassador's wife. This same agent made constant phone calls to the Saudi embassy before the attack. All of this is according to FBI documents and is similar to the findings of the Joint Congressional Inquiry into 9/11.

http://professorsmartass.blogspot.com/2008/03/foia-doc-shows-911commission-lied-about.html

[LynneSin]

24. I'm sure all those people in New Orleans felt safe when Katrina wiped through...

I realize that Katrina was an "Act of God" but a properly administration would have made the preparations to minimize the loss of human lives.

[mzmolly]

25. Really?

[Vickers]

26. Kept us safe from budget surpluses. Not so much from Saudi hijackers.

:eyes:

Ahhhhh, revisionist history...ya gotta love it!

I wonder if Idiot George is still looking for WMDs under desks?

:shrug:

[Octafish]

27. That's the Big Lie

Every repuke schmuck in town has been repeating that since 2002, along with its sickening counterpart:

"Thank gawd that Al Gore wasn't president on 9-11."

I get them to shut up, right away, with:

"If Al Gore was president, there would have been no 9-11."

[Zenlitened]

28. Ding. That's what I tell 'em, too.

"If Al Gore was president, there would have been no 9-11."

And their ugly, shit-filled heads just about explode.

Because... deep down... they know it's true.

[librechik]

30. Karl--Katrina???? Did you "forget?" Oh, certain people don't count

to Republicans, I guess. Thank god Junior made it home safe.