ROVE'S WAR - HE BROUGHT US THE GREAT PRETENDER
Smart enough to get an Idiot in the White House, dumb enough to lie to a Grand Jury

Born the son of a poor black sharecropper in the dustbowl of Oklahoma - actually nothing could be further from the truth, Rove is about as white as they come, and was a master debator in his youth at Olypus high school in Salt Lake City..

Rove was your standard nerd, big fearless fly glasses, his family admits he was a republican from the start.

He was head of the debate team in college and was reputed to have psyched out the opponents by bringing in big boxes of notecards - someone later admitted the notecards were blanks.

After dropping out of the Univ of Utah he began his political career with the college republicans. and chaired there from 73-74, for the next few year he worked in republican circles..

January 2003: Esquire magazine wrote that Karl Rove was fired from the 1992 Bush Sr. Presidential campaign for leaking to Robert Novak a damaging story about Rove's direct-mail business competitor Robert Mosbacher, Jr.

What can you learn from guys like Lee Atwater - the man that brought us the Willie Horton Ad? How about, "every dirty trick in the book."

In the 1986 election where Rove represented Clements the race was neck and neck with the undecideds to make the difference. Rove suddenly discovered a bugging device in his office and utilized the media to cry foul.

Rove shifted the focus from the debate - instead the media dove on the bugging incident, with the Gov voluntering publicly for a lie detector test. The FBI reported that someone with easy regular access to Rove's office would have to
service it almost daily. The unit would only operate for approximately 15 minutes per charge. Detectives removed it instead of using it to catch the user.

Later a judge ruled to keep the election from getting balled up over the bug, or who had planted it - so the court dropped the whole thing. Future smaller nations at the UN would complain of US bugging to coerce them into voting for the war against
Iraq.

In one State Supreme Court race in the 90's in Alabama Rove's candidate went up against an opponent who as a former family court judge had an impecable reputation on Child Welfare issues. Rove was alleged to have spread the word, with a whisper campaign, that the man was a pedophile.

During the Bush/Richards Election for Gov of Texas suddenly a whisper campaign struck that had people in some quarters wondering a little too loudly if Richard was a "lesbian"..

Rove of course would not only make use of whisper campaigns in the future, but the right wing gay hate agenda as well. Richards lost to Bush, a man who had been rebuilt by Karl Rove from nothing.

In the 2000 Primaries Bush was getting his ass handed to him by John McCain - so the Rove war machine sprang into action. A whisper campaign was started back in washington that McCain was a little mental - he'd been through too much as a POW in Nam. Looking back, dishonoring actual war heroes is a Bush / Rove tradition. Later it would become a verb, to be "Swift Boated". In South Carolina, the Sunday before the polls, flyers were stuck on windshields at churches claiming McCains wife was a drug addict. Another bush tradition, usiing churches to assassinate an opponent's character.

But the worst was yet to come.

Someone called radio stations and asserted that McCain had a black "love child". Soon thousands of push polling calls kept hammering the lie. The truth is that McCain had adopted one of Mother Teresas orphans. Mcain was toast after that.

Rove's war against america was just beginning. Rove had taken someone who had failed in every business and created a puppet for the rich. He had hooked up with some very powerful people in the oil and defense industries as
well as NeoConservatives who wanted nothing less than world domination. To create a war president and a war machine to enrich the rich.

Cheney's Halliburton would be one of the cogs in their war machine that would kill our troops for profit. All they needed was the White House to get the rest of the govt, and Rove was determined to do just that.

By blowing boogiemen up and giving the public the idea they'd get cheap gas (as conveyed by a ego centric, out of touch, capitalist serving media, who sometimes even interviewed themselves) Rove was able to thumb his nose at our very constitution and make the dirty moves to install a lying idiot
into our precious white house.

Using a media capable of convincing enough people that there was no difference between Bush and Gore, that Bush was presidential, along with Rove's usual dirty tricks - like making sure the Gore team got the Bush debate practice video with a poor person delivering it - told it was a pair of pants - the debates were called for Bush because Gore seemed to breathe too loud and looked orangy in color on screen.

Bush described his humble non "nation building" foreign policy and that race was on. There was a lot of confusion during the election and flordia took the brunt of thousands of lawyers flying in to save the day for their candidate.

It was decided by the right wing who tired of counting, a bush campaign manager in charge of the final call, a republican riot staged by Delay's office to stop the vote and eventually handed to Bush by the Supreme court which had been packed by his father and Reagan.

Most people consider it a stolen election by any standards. But we got stuck with a man who upon taking his oath to abide by the Constitution and to protect all americans, among other things, began to immediately lie and plot to invade Iraq.

Bush had decided to finish the job his father had started in Iraq as told to some writers as far back as 1999.

What do these people have in common?

Just like Watergate. on Jan 2, 2001, about the time bush was being sworn in, the Niger embassy in rome was robbed - the thieves stole letterhead stationary and official seals that could be used to create bogus documents.

In earlier days Rove broke in and stole letterheads from Alan Dixons office creating official invites to show up for "free beer, free fun, etc" at Dixon's headquarters. Rove passed out the invites in the red light district of town.

With new powers at his disposal it's not hard to make the stretch that Rove was capable of employing "plumbers" of his own to steal letter heads from the Niger embassy to be used for war forgeries instead of pranks.

Within months Italian intelligence obtained official looking documents indicating that Iraq was in the market for 500 tons of yellowcake from Niger. Dated from July to Oct 2000 they were crude forgeries but made it into the Oct 2002 National Intelligence Estimate and the CIA never bothered to examine the papers. During that period the Brits and Bush were fixing the intelligence to go to war with Iraq.

Let's revisit a bit of the chronology of the Plame outing and who was involved.

Sept 2002 "The White House, in the run-up to war in Iraq, did not seek CIA approval before charging that Saddam Hussein could launch a biological or chemical attack within 45 minutes, a claim made twice, once in the Rose garden, then in that Saturday's radio address.

Bush attributed the claim to the British government, but in a 'Global Message' issued Sept. 26 and still on the White House Web site, the White House claimed, without attribution, that Iraq 'could launch a biological or chemical attack 45 minutes after the order is given.'"

19 March, 2003: President Bush orders the invasion of Iraq.

2 May, 2003: Wilson meets New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof on a panel.

6 July 2003: Wilson's Op-Ed article "What I Didn't Find in Africa" published in New York Times. Regarding the genesis of the trip, Wilson wrote, "In February 2002, I was informed by officials at the Central Intelligence Agency that Vice President Dick Cheney's office had questions about a particular intelligence report. "

July 7, 2003: Colin Powell receives a copy of 10 June memo naming Valerie Wilson as Joe Wilson's wife and as a CIA officer, taking it with him on a trip on Air Force One with President Bush. The paragraph identifying Mrs. Wilson is marked "(S)" meaning information in that paragraph is classified Secret. Condoleezza Rice, Colin Powell, Ari Fleischer, Walter H. Kansteiner III, Eliot Abrams, and Andrew Card were on the trip, including press who saw Fleiscsher reading the memo.

11 July, 2003: Matt Cooper's internal Time email, bearing the time 11:07 a.m. was sent to his bureau chief. "Spoke to Rove on double super secret background for about two mins before he went on vacation ..." . Cooper wrote that Rove offered him a "big warning" not to "get too far out on Wilson." Rove told Cooper that Wilson's trip had not been authorized by CIA Director George Tenet or Vice President Dick Cheney. Rather, "it was Karl Rove who said, Wilson's wife, who apparently works at the agency on WMD issues who authorized the trip." Cooper would later tell the investigating grand jury that Rove concluded theconversation by saying "I've already said too much."

Afternoon or evening of 11 July, 2003: CIA Director George Tenet takes responsibity for the misleading
language concerning uranium in Bush's State of the Union Address, citing a failure of the agency's vetting
process.

His statement is written by Karl Rove and Scooter Libby.

16 July 2003: "A White House Smear" is published at the website of Nation magazine. Author David Corn opines that Novak's informants revealed the role of Wilson's wife in order to sully Wilson's name for the
sake of revenge, "That would seem to mean that the Bush administration has screwed one of its own
top-secret operatives in order to punish Wilson or to send a message to others who might challenge it."
Corn's article is the first published to argue a nefarious White House role.

17 July 2003: "A War on Wilson" is published at Time website by Matthew Cooper- "And some government officials have noted to TIME in interviews, (as well as to Novak) that Wilson's wife, Valerie Plame, is a CIA official who monitors the proliferation of WMDs.

These officials said she was involved Wilson being dispatched to Niger
to investigate reports that Iraq had sought to purchase large quantities of yellow cake, used to build nuclear
devices." (Two years later, in July 2005, it was revealed that one of the officials who spoke of Plame to Time was Karl Rove.)

July 22, 2003 Newsday quotes Novak, on Plame's name: "I didn't dig it out. It was given to me. They thought it was significant. They gave me the name, and I used it."

It's Very significant - Rove never admits he gave Plame's Name to Novak and Novak keeps coming up with different stories as time goes on.

21 August 2003: Wilson participated in a public panel organized in Washington by Representative Jay Inslee of Washington State and is quoted as having said "At the end of the day, it's of keen interest to me to see whether or not we can get Karl Rove frog-marched out of the White House in handcuffs. And trust me, when I use that name, I measure my words."

September 16, 2003: McClellan says "it's totally ridiculous" to say Karl Rove was the Plame leak.

29 September 2003: Scott McClellan on Karl Rove: "He wasn't involved,... The president knows he wasn't involved. It's simply not true." "The President has set high standards the highest of standards for people in his administration. If anyone in this administration was involved in it, they would no longer be in this administration."

September 29, 2003 ABC reporter asks Rove, "Did you have any knowledge or did you leak the name of the CIA agent to the press?" Rove answers "No."

Chris Mathews of HARDBALL said he was told Plame was fair game by Rove.

7 October 2003: Scott McClellan, attempting to ignore the question of whether Scooter Libby, Karl Rove or Elliot Abrams was the leaker said, "That's correct. I've spoken with them." Bush voices doubt if the leaker would ever be found.

December 2003 or January 2004: Rove's lawyer Robert Luskin says Rove has signed a waiver authorizing prosecutors like Fitzgerald to speak to any reporters Rove had talked to.

8 March 2004: The American Prospect says Rove insisted he was not the administration official who leaked the information that Plame was a covert CIA operative to conservative columnist Robert Novak last July. Rove said he had only circulated information about Plame after it had appeared in Novak's column. This is contrary to what Rove's lawyer will later admit.

June 10, 2004 Bush stands by his pledge to fire anyone found to have leaked the agent's name.

July 31, 2004 Rove says on CNN "Well, I'll repeat what I said to ABC News when this whole thing broke some number of months ago. I didnít know her name and didn't leak her name." On ABC, he had actually denied having any knowledge of the Plame leak.

October 2004: Rove testifies before a grand jury investigating the leak of Plame's identity. Rove spent more
than two hours testifying before the panel... Before testifying, Rove was interviewed at least once by
investigators probing the leak.

1 July 2005: Lawrence O'Donnell, senior MSNBC political analyst, on the McLaughlin Group stated: "And I know I'm going to get pulled into the grand jury for saying this but the source of...for Matt Cooper was Karl Rove, and that will be revealed in this document dump that Time magazine's going to do with the grand jury."

July 4, 2005: Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, admits to Newsweek that Rove did talk to reporters about Plame before Novak's story, contradicting Rove's assertion that he only spoke to reporters after Plame's identity was revealed.

Rove may have told different stories to the FBI at start of inquiry.

July 6, 2005: Rove's lawyer, Robert Luskin, told Newsweek that Rove "did not call Cooper" to give permission to Cooper to testify. These words will be revealed as intentionally misleading. The Washington Post swallows it whole, mistakenly raising doubt that Rove was the leak.

July 10, 2005: Newsweek quotes Rove lawyer Robert Luskin as confirming that Rove was the source who gave information to Time reporter Matt Cooper under a pledge of confidentiality, and that he subsequently released him to testify about that conversation to a grand jury.

July 11, 2005: Cooper did not actually get a call from his "source" Rove. Read a WSJ interview by Rove Attorney Luskin and decided to testify.

July 13, 2005: Matt Cooper confirmed that his source on the leak was President Bush's Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove after receiving a waiver from confidentiality signed by Rove's attorney, Robert Luskin.

Since then Rove has testified again, and the plot thickens and thickens.

Fitzgerald is setting up an airtight case in particular with Rove - just take a look at the lies and dirty tricks, and you can see why.

But Rove is going DOWN, just like Libby, you can bet on it.