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Thursday, 04 March 2010 00:00 |
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Tom Diemer
Politics Daily
March 4, 2010 Karl Rove, the White House adviser whom George W. Bush called his
political “architect,” admits in a new memoir that the failure to find
weapons of mass destruction in Iraq severely damaged the Bush
presidency — and he suggests the war might not have occurred had Bush
actually known the truth.
Of his own role, Rove writes that his biggest mistake was not
pushing back against claims that the president had led the country into
the Iraq war under false pretenses.
If Bush had known about the absence of weapons of mass destruction,
Rove questions whether the United States would have gone to war,
according to an excerpt quoted by the New York Times. “Would the Iraq
War have occurred without W.M.D., I doubt it,” Rove writes. “Congress
was very unlikely to have supported the use-of-force resolution without
the W.M.D. threat. The Bush administration itself would probably have
sought other ways to constrain Saddam, bring about regime change and
deal with Iraq’s horrendous human rights violations.”
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