The Rove story, the killing of Zarqawi, the Camp David strategy session, the trip to Baghdad were more political than anything else. It's all planned around the November elections, with all strings being pulled to protect the Republicans and to keep them in power. And now the propaganda blitzkrieg begins.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/13/washington/13prexy.html?_r=1&hp&ex=1150171200&en=5704bd59dc999f79&ei=5094&partner=homepage&oref=slogin<snip>
THURMONT, Md., June 12 — President Bush gathered top aides at Camp David here on Monday to calibrate the best way forward in Iraq during what the administration described as a critical juncture, following the death last week of the most-wanted terrorist in Iraq and the final formation of a unity government there.
The meeting was as much a media event as it was a high-level strategy session, devised to send a message that this is "an important break point for the Iraqi people and for our mission in Iraq from the standpoint of the American people," in the words of the White House counselor, Dan Bartlett.
It came as Republicans began a new effort to use last week's events to turn the war to their political advantage after months of anxiety, and to sharpen attacks against Democrats. On Monday night, the president's top political strategist, Karl Rove, told supporters in New Hampshire that if the Democrats had their way, Iraq would fall to terrorists and Abu Musab al-Zarqawi would not have been killed.
"When it gets tough, and when it gets difficult, they fall back on that party's old pattern of cutting and running," Mr. Rove said at a state Republican Party gathering in Manchester...
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