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From Newsweek, by Michael Isikoff
At one point that year [2002], Rove presented Bush with poll numbers showing the public misgivings about an Iraq invasion. “The public isn’t buying it,” he told the president in an Oval Office meeting.
Bush exploded. “Don’t tell me about f—— polls,” Bush replied, according to a then White House official who asked not to be identified talking about internal deliberations. “I don’t care what the polls say.” It was Rove’s job to move those numbers, the president made clear.
But it was still necessary to link Iraq to the public’s legitimate security fears – and there again Rove played a key part, just as the president wanted.
That summer, the former White House chief of staff Andrew Card created the White House Iraq Group – a collection of senior advisers, including Rove, who met regularly in the Situation Room to craft a public relations strategy that would play up pieces of intelligence about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and supposed connections to international terrorism.
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Me again. We all know now those connections and WMD were totally fabricated bullshit.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20251378/site/newsweek/
This is a great article that explains how Karl Rove sold the public a bill of goods on Iraq and then twisted the arms of weenie Dems in Congress into voting for an authorization to invade Iraq.
{;-) Dan in Miami
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