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Rove Writing "Revisionist Resume?

Bush’s Brain has dropped a book, all 608 pages worth. At two and a half pounds, that’s quite the pile. In it, his good friend [and most notable client]

George Bush is depicted in glowing terms, more so, as Rove, holding himself up for comparison, willingly (read- deceptively) concedes he’s the lesser man.

While ostensibly a biography, this doorstop is really a revisionist resume. You can read about Rove’s history, emerging fully-formed in the late sixties as a Nixonian dirty-trickster, running about college campuses with BFF Lee Atwater trampling voters’ rights, but the real ink is spent inverting the deceit of the Bush Administration. Rove scribes that Bush didn’t lie us into war with Iraq, and falling on his own pen, states that his greatest mistake was not pushing back against critics that said Bush had. Clearly Bush did lie and Rove did push back, unless calling those that questioned the war ‘unpatriotic’ isn’t pushing back. But you have to admit, Rove is shrewd. His contrition is the parlor trick. Watch as I apologize for not upholding a truth that in reality is a lie. Plenty up his sleeve.

Last, I’ll take exception to the title of the tome, ‘Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight’. What courage? Courageous are the thousands of men and woman sent to fight and die in Iraq under false pretences. We ought not to define courage as growing fat on tearing down others as is the case with Rove’s career . What consequence? Only to the truth perhaps. What fight has Rove waged and to what end? To dissemble and destroy political clients’ opponents and their ideals- and I include the conservativism Rove pretends to champion by the way, without doing anything constructive to solve the countries lingering problems. That’s a helluva consequence.

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Rove distorts Senate report to claim Bush didn't "lie us into war". Pages 340-341. Rove claims Senate report said Bush statements were backed up by intelligence. However, a June 5, 2008, Senate Intelligence Committee report ( http://intelligence.senate.gov/pdfs/110345.pdf) examining government officials' pre-war statements about Iraq concluded that Bush's allegations suggesting "that Iraq and al-Qa'ida had a partnership" were "not substantiated by the intelligence"; and that Bush's statements indicating Saddam was prepared to give WMD to terrorists were "contradicted by available intelligence."

A study by two nonprofit journalism organizations found that President Bush and top administration officials issued hundreds of false statements about the national security threat from Iraq in the two years following the 2001 terrorist attacks.

The study concluded that the statements "were part of an orchestrated campaign that effectively galvanized public opinion and, in the process, led the nation to war under decidedly false pretenses." The study was posted Tuesday on the Web site of the Center for Public Integrity, which worked with the Fund for Independence in Journalism.

The study counted 935 false statements in the two-year period. It found that in speeches, briefings, interviews and other venues, Bush and administration officials stated unequivocally on at least 532 occasions that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction or was trying to produce or obtain them or had links to al-Qaida or both.

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