The problem is, he might be exactly right. As Richard Clarke and others have pointed out, deciding to invade Iraq was a great gift from President Bush to Al-Qaeda. (Clarke imagined Osama in a cave, trying to control the President by telepathic means: "You must... invade... Iraq".)In a question-and-answer period after his speech, Rove was asked whose idea it was to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq.
“I think it was Osama bin Laden’s,” Rove replied.
The attacks of 9/11 were probably designed, precisely, to elicit this kind of reaction - a bad, bad move on part of the US. It was a trap, and it worked.
p.s. As for Rove's comments that he never wanted the war to happen, words fail me. But it is a reminder of how grave a moral failure it really is, to choose war/occupation, when other options were available, and then to run it incompetently.
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