Arthur Silber: Karl Rove's War

KARL ROVE’S WAR: IT’S ALL ABOUT HIM
July 14th, 2005

The ongoing and remarkably vicious smear campaign against Joseph Wilson and Valerie Plame—the viciousness of which is notable even for those Republicans well-experienced in such matters—is an accurate measure of the contemptible depths to which the Bush administration has sunk. What had been the Iraq war—an “optional” war which we chose for no defensible reason, which we targeted against a nation that did not threaten us, and which has cost tens of thousands of deaths of innocent Iraqis, American military personnel and others, and which has maimed countless additional thousands for life—has now become Karl Rove’s war. The Bush administration thus confirms, in a manner as destructive as it is despicable, that none of this ever concerned national security or the defense of our country. It’s all about them.