Yesterday's New York Times characterized the Bush powwow at Camp David on what to do about Iraq as a "...meeting [that] was as much a media event as it was a high-level strategy session... ."
No surprise there. The Bush White House sees every event in Iraq, even the killing of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, as political -- as in, "How can we spin this to our electoral advantage?"
Bring in Karl Rove, who apparently wiil not be indicted in the Valerie Plame affair:
"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."
Odd that Rove should make such a claim given that Bush declined on more than one occasion before the beginning of the Iraq War to take out the arch terrorist --and favorite "bogeyman" of the pro-war faction:
" 'People were more obsessed with developing the coalition to overthrow Saddam than to execute the president’s policy of preemption against terrorists,' according to terrorism expert and former National Security Council member Roger Cressey."
Bush and company used Zarqawi --"an enemy to America's liking"-- as a public relations tool to justify the invasion of Iraq. Now Bushco appears to be using Zarqawi's death as PR to muster support for the continued occupation of Iraq. And hope against hope that it swings some votes the Republican way come November.
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