Barney Frank - Rove's Goal: Resuscitate the Phony Iraq-9/11 Connection

Karl Rove's dishonest attack on liberals was not simply a random political shot, but rather part of an effort to resuscitate the discredited claim that the war in Iraq was a response to 9/11. Where liberals have disagreed with this Administration has not been in response to 9/11, but with regard to the war in Iraq. What Rove is trying to do is to confuse the two issues, thereby trying to bring back the argument that the war in Iraq was in fact part of the war against terrorism. He knows that liberals cannot be faulted in our response to 9/11. What he has tried to do is to use opposition to the war in Iraq as an argument that liberals have been soft on terrorism and 9/11. This is clearly a strategy dictated by the increasing public awareness that the Administration's rationales for the war in Iraq were dishonest, and that neither the weapons of mass destruction argument nor the response to terrorism argument have any validity.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/theblog/archive/rep-barney-frank/roves-goal-resuscitate-_3337.html

By my count (speech started at 8:00 pm)

9/11 Reference #1 at 8:02 p.m.
9/11 Reference #2 at 8:04 p.m.
9/11 Reference #3 at 8:09 p.m.
9/11 Reference #4 at 8:24 p.m.


BTW - Suprisingly, Bush referred to Osama Bin Laden by name...

Osama Reference #1 at 8:07 p.m.
Osama Reference #2 at 8:09 p.m.

1st spontaneous applause did not occur until 8:25 p.m.

He knows the dsm is looming over his shoulder and is hoping the world forgets that they promised to find a treasure trove of wmd's in Iraq if they were allowed to invade.

deflect, distract and detract