Karl Rove: Soft on terror (Keith Olbermann)

[Starfury]

• July 11, 2005 | 11:39 a.m. ET

Karl Rove: Soft on terror (Keith Olbermann)

SECURED UNDISCLOSED LOCATION -- Karl Rove is a liability in the war on terror.

Rove -- Newsweek’s new article quotes the very emails -- told a Time reporter that Ambassador Joe Wilson’s trip to investigate of the Niger uranium claim was at the behest of Wilson’s CIA wife.

To paraphrase Mr. Rove, liberals saw the savagery of the 9/11 attacks and wanted to prepare indictments and offer therapy and understanding for our attackers; conservatives saw the savagery of 9/11 and the attacks and prepared to ruin the career of one of the country’s spies tracking terrorist efforts to gain weapons of mass destruction -- for political gain.

Politics first, counter-terrorism second -- it’s as simple as that.

In his ‘story guidance’ to Matthew Cooper of Time, Rove did more damage to your safety than the most thumb-sucking liberal or guard at Abu Ghraib. He destroyed an intelligence asset like Valerie Plame merely to deflect criticism of a politician. We have all the damned politicians, of every stripe, that we need. The best of them isn’t worth half a Valerie Plame. And if the particular politician for whom Rove was deflecting, President Bush, is more than just all hat and no cattle on terrorism, he needs to banish Rove -- and loudly.

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Go, Keith, go! :bounce: :bounce: :bounce:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6210240/

[tk2kewl]

This piece is a MUST Read in its entirety.

I loved KOs conclusion making comparisons to the "unattended bag" in public places ....

"And the bottom line is this: in the metaphoric department of the war on terror, Karl Rove not only leaves bags unattended - he does it intentionally."

[tk2kewl]

1. oops

submitted twice

[jbfam4]

2. You got my vote on this one

Nobody tells the truth like Keith....

[PurityOfEssence]

3. "Soft?!" Hell, he's a textbook definition of "terrorist" himself.

Any means to seize or maintain power are just fine by him. The real irony of the whole thing is that they were trying to gin up an excuse for war based on Weapons of Mass Destruction, and after they'd stirred up a hornet's nest with their botchkrieg, he does something that seriously screws up our counterintelligence abilities dealing with WMDs. It just proves that proliferation isn't the issue; maintaining control and scaring other members of the intelligence community into silence is what matters to this little creep.

No surprise, huh?

[Simeon Salus]

4. Wow. The Countdown's going to be murder this evening.

Will be tough to choose between Scotty's frog march on C-Span and the ass kicking Olberman's likely to dish out tonight on MSNBC.

[Miss Chybil]

5. Excellent.

Kick!

:kick:

[Jack Rabbit]

6. Well said

Actually, the whole Bush regime is a liablity. Politics before public safety is how the whole lot of them think.

[Pallas180]

7. Olberman has a way

of saying things with a straight face that makes absolute fools out
of them.

I luv Olberman.

He's the only one who has had the guts all along to stick pins in the hot air baloon of junior and his administration.