Froomkin: Bush embraces divisiveness of Iraq war as '06 mid-term issue

He's a divider, not a uniter --

WP: The War Over the War
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, June 15, 2006

President Bush could have declared a change of course in his overwhelmingly unpopular war in Iraq this week.

Riding high on a few rare glimmers of good news, Bush could have declared that it was time for the U.S. to start its exodus from that troubled country, thereby offering the public a light at the end of the tunnel -- and possibly uniting a deeply fractured country in the anticipation of our troops coming home.

But instead, Bush yesterday made it clear: Not only is he set in his path -- he's embracing the divisive nature of the war and declaring it the No. 1 campaign issue of the 2006 mid-term elections.

It's somehow appropriate that this was also the week that Bush political guru Karl Rove slipped the clutches of the CIA leak investigation. For it is Rove who is the mastermind of the war over the war....By trying to turn attention to the Democrats -- and their incoherent, inconsistent, and irresolute approach to the war -- Rove has once again settled on his usual and reliable game plan: Don't defend, attack!

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