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starting in 2004, some members of the George W. Bush administration and
Republican lawmakers began to find evidence of
Obama's
phony birth certificate,
erm, discarded chemical weapons in Iraq. But when the information was
brought up with the White House, senior adviser Karl Rove told them to
"let these sleeping dogs lie." The issue of Iraq’s WMD remnants was
suddenly thrust back into the fore this week, with a blockbuster New
York Times report accusing the Bush administration of covering up
American troops’ chemically induced wounds.
To people familiar with the
issue, both inside that administration and outside, the blame for the
coverup falls on one particular set of shoulders: Rove’s.
Dave Wurmser, a Senior aide to Dick Cheney, succinctly told The Beast
“it was all for nothing; Rove wanted the issue buried.”
Concerning that message burial, it is clear that the false narratives
that hardened over those years -- on WMDs, yellow cake uranium,
Katrina, the economic meltdown, and even the 2000 election -- paved the
way for the Democrat rout in 2006 and for Barack Obama in 2008 and
2012. After all, even John McCain in '08 and Mitt Romney to some extent
in '12 ran against Bush rather than against Obama. Some 53% of the
country still blamed Bush for the economy in November of 2012 -- almost
exactly the percentage that voted Obama -- and the "Bush lied people
died" meme is still prevalent on liberal websites [
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Rove Lied, Republican Brand Died]
