An American Liberal Reviews Karl Rove’s Account of the Iraq War

An American Liberal Reviews Karl Rove’s Account of the Iraq War

Things are different today. When I was in school the teachers all encouraged the study of history and more than once I heard the old saw that if you didn't learn from history you were doomed to repeat it. Today, however, it seems like people's memory of history only goes back as far as the last newscast they happened to hear or the last pronouncement by their favorite actor or singer. The actual study of history is usually limited to that which is approved by the increasingly liberal professors and administrators and must, of course, be absolutely politically correct. Would that the truth of history was politically correct but we know that politically correct history is the antithesis of the truth of history.

The linked review is refreshing in that the reviewer, although politically liberal, is intellectually honest. I know that's an unusual combination but it does exist more often than we conservatives imagine--Pat Caddell, the Democrat pollster from Jimmy Carter's Administration is another example--still the events in question are less than 10 years ago and should be--I stress should be--still fresh in everyone's mind. Sadly they are not. Among those who avidly voted for Obama but couldn't identify his Vice President or the things that his Vice President said or that Obama himself said, memory is about as long and in depth as that of a goldfish. That's why Karl Rove's book is needed so soon after the end of the Bush Presidency. One can fairly criticize President Bush for some of his later fiscal policies, even though those were increasingly driven by a partisan, Democrat-controlled Congress after 2006 that surely did not have Republican or the country's best interests in mind; but, his decisions on national security cannot be so easily faulted. Nor, as history clearly reveals when you remove the smoke and mirrors of the liberal-progressive-Democrat political machine and its Left Stream Media abettors, was it politically partisan. The cold, clear truth is that it was bi-partisan in nature--something the left would have you forget--and spurred by a true national interest rather than the "corporate interest" fairy tale pushed by the left today.

All in all, Rove's book looks to be an excellent read for those who want to see the truth.

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