March 21, 2012: Karl Rove wrote an Op Ed in Rupert Murdoch's WSJ. In Rove's OpEd he intentionally edited President Clinton's words to, naturally politicize Bin Laden's Killing and to give the "appearance" that killing BinLaden was not a big deal.
Rove wrote:
"For this [killing BinLaden] to be portrayed as the epic achievement of the first term tells you how bare the White House cupboards are."
Well, at least Bush/Cheney's Political Adviser explained why Bush/Cheney did not intend to kill Bin Laden: No one in the Bush/Cheney White House saw killing BinLaden as any type of "achievement."
Rove intentionally edited President Clinton's words to Politicize the Killing of BinLaden. Rove initially wrote:
"Even President Bill Clinton says in the film ‘that’s the call I would have made.’”
~ source: Thinkprogress
Except, that is
not what "
even President Bill Clinton actually says in the film."
This is what President Bill Clinton actually did say in the film:
CLINTON: He took the harder, and the more honorable path. When I saw what had happened, I thought to myself, I hope that’s the call I would of made.
After Karl Rove published his Propaganda piece that intentionally edited President Clinton's words, not one single rightwinged GOPer said "boo" about Rove lying and politicizing the killing of Bin Laden.
Also, and equally important, not one single GOPer said Rove was "despicable" for saying killing BinLaden was not a major achievement. Not Arianna Huffington, not Ed W. Gillespie, not Mitt Romney, not John McCain ....
hmmmm..... Perhaps Rove, Gillespie, Romney, Arianna, McCain et. al., should watch those planes hitting the tower again and then tell us that killing Bin Laden was not a major achievement.
Look, there is no nice way to say this: Karl Rove is an un-indicted criminal and a lying Propagandist who makes tons of money selling hate and lies.
McCain and many Rightwinged Talking Heads slammed Mitt Romney in April 2007 for saying:
GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY: "I think, I wouldn't want to over-concentrate on Bin Laden. He's one of many, many people who are involved in this global Jihadist effort. He's by no means the only leader ... It's not worth moving heaven and earth and spending billions of dollars just trying to catch one person. It is worth fashioning and executing an effective strategy to defeat global, violent Jihad and I have a plan for doing that."
Here's where Mitt Romney clearly says he would not go into Pakistan to get BinLaden:
Aug. 4, 2007
Reuters
"Romney attacks Obama over Pakistan warning."
ROMNEY "I do not concur in the words of Barack Obama in a plan to enter an ally [Pakistan] of ours... I don't think those kinds of comments help in this effort to draw more friends to our effort..."There is a war being waged by terrorists of different types and nature across the world. We want, as a civilized world, to participate with other nations in this civilized effort to help those nations reject the extreme with them."
No doubt at all in 2007 Romney said he
would not go into Pakistan to kill BinLaden and Mitt did not think killing BinLaden was worth spending Billions or Trillions of dollars on.
Maybe Mitt has no idea that President Obama ordered our SEALs to go into Pakistan to kill BinLaden? Maybe that's why today he is Etch-A-Sketching and saying he would have ordered the same strike Obama did.
Funny thing, today, those same Frightwingers who, in 2007, said Mitt was "naive" and wrong about BinLaden's role in Al Queda are now defending Romney's words ... HA HA HA ... ahhh .... the bitter taste of hypocrisy.
But what those Frightwingers are not doing is criticizing Karl Rove for politicizing, lying and dismissing the killing of BinLaden. Again .. ahhh... the bitter taste of hypocrisy.
Between Rove's comments and Romney's comments, I would say:
1) In October 2001, we went to war with Afghanistan for the sole purpose of finding Bin Laden and destroying his training camps.
2) We the People have already spent Trillions and over 500,000 innocent people have died in our effort to try to get BinLaden.
3) Interesting that Karl Rove and his pals do not really think it was worth the Trillions spent and the US Troops lives lost in the U.S. effort to kill the man behind 9/11.
I'm curious what the Republicans and Rightwingers 'think' we went to war in Afghanistan for? We didn't enter Afghanistan to fight "
global, violent jihad" ... whatever the f@ck that means. We went to Afghanistan because that's where BinLaden lived and where he had training camps -- that's it.
Here's what Bush said on October 7, 2001:
BUSH: "More than two weeks ago, I gave Taliban leaders [in Afghanistan] a series of clear and specific demands:
- Close terrorist training camps;
- hand over leaders of the al Qaeda network; and
- return all foreign nationals, including American citizens, unjustly detained in your country.
None of these demands were met. And now the Taliban will pay a price. By destroying camps and disrupting communications, we will make it more difficult for the terror network to train new recruits and coordinate their evil plans.
This military action is a part of our campaign against terrorism, another front in a war that has already been joined through diplomacy, intelligence, the freezing of financial assets and the arrests of known terrorists by law enforcement agents in 38 countries."
~ President Bush Announces Military Strikes in Afghanistan
VOA News Report
I am stunned that not one single Republican candidate for president or Frightwinged Talking Head called Karl Rove "despicable" for implying the killing of Bin Laden was not a major achievement. Not only that, not one single Republican candidate or Frightwinged Talking Head accused Rove of "Politicizing and event that unified the country."
I guess it is official, Bush/Cheney Foreign Policy was a FAILURE because Karl Rove and others in the Bush/Cheney White House did not really think that killing BinLaden, the man who plotted "evil plans" would be a major achievement -- whereas spending Trillions looking for imaginary WMD was, somehow, considered a major achievement.
Well, thanks to our incredibly skilled, brave and honorable American Military Personnel and thanks to President Obama, who had the courage, strength and leadership to order the strike, Bin Laden is dead now. As for Barack Obama's Republican opponents still jealousy and failure to give credit where credit is due, their message to him should be a simple one:
"Thank you President Obama for having the balls to do what at least one Republican candidate, Romney, said he would not do and for having the balls an Foreign Policy expertise to do what no Republican President could do in 8 years after spending Trillions of dollars and over 500,000 innocent people died ... thank you."