And I also have a bridge in Brooklyn you might want to buy

Karl Rove told Charlie Rose (Nov 21) that George W. Bush was pushed into Iraq by the Congress. I will wait a moment as you read that a second time. Maybe a third. I don't believe he said it either. But he did and he said it on TV. And here all along I thought I heard Bush ask Congress to authorize the use of the US military in Iraq--what could I have been smoking.

I've been thinking about this interview for a few days now and trying to assemble my thoughts without using expletives that need deleting. Both of them make me so angry.

Had he not been pushed into invading Iraq, Rove maintains, Bush would have done what he really wanted to do in the first place: Provide more time for inspectors. What Bush wanted was a peaceful alternative but was thwarted by Congress. When I heard that I looked out the window to make sure there were no pigs roosting in my trees. I assume that Congress also forced the preemptive strike on the peace loving president. However, it should be noted that in this interview Rove admitted that the United States rushed into war ill-prepared.

This is historic revision on a monumental scale. In fact, it more closely resembles convenient fiction and it makes clear why his dear friend George Bush calls Karl Rove "turd blossom." Rove and Bush are the kind of people who allow other people to go to war for them, they did it in Vietnam and they are doing it now. They do pretty much what they want with human lives and never let it be said that either is concerned about trampling on the Constitution in the bargain.

Karl Rove, and by extension George Bush, succeed because they think Americans are stupid--and they are right. Their sole purpose, as far as I can see it, is to put everything in this country into the hands of a few wealthy friends. They call this privatization. I used to think the whole Iraqi mess was for oil, but I slowly came to realize that these guys mean business. Today, Iraq, tomorrow the whole world. Right now, it's blood for oil, as long as the blood is not Rove's or Bush's. Rove is a traitor to his country, he gave up a CIA agent for political reasons. But I don't see anyone rushing to put the guy behind bars where he belongs.

But this is what comes of Republicans, who have rewritten history to the point that we forget that it was Ronald Reagan who armed and funded all of the "terrorists" we are now fighting. Before this is done, the Republicans will have rewritten history making George W. Bush the greatest president since Abraham Lincoln. When you tell a lie, make it a big one, Adolph Hitler said, knowing that the bigger the lie, the easier it is for people to believe.

When the interview ended I didn't know whether to laugh, cry or slit my wrist. But one word reverberated in my fevered brain: Contemptible. The whole lot is contemptible, as are the people who voted for them, the people who continue to support them, and the weak livered Congress that allowed this to happen.