Whose Idea Was It?
So that whole war in Iraq that's sucking the Republican's poll numbers down the drain, along with American credibility and, oh yeah, the US Army, whose idea was that again?
Rove was asked whose idea it was to start a pre-emptive war in Iraq.
"I think it was Osama bin Laden's,'' Rove replied.
Man, where to begin?
Does Rove think following the advice of Osama bin Laden is a good idea?
I mean, if somebody who I thought was trying to destroy my way of life started coming up with ideas of what he'd like me to do, I would guess that those ideas might not be in my best interest and refuse to do them.
Michael Scheuer said that Bush had become bin Laden's "indispensible ally". I know most experts figure bin Laden has to be quite happy with the way the Iraq War has turned out and that it is bringing thousands of new recruits to his cause. I just never thought a guy like Rove would admit that they actually are helping him.
How do you think the conversation went when bin Laden phoned the White House?
OBL: Yo, big guy, what’s up?
Bush: Hey man, things are great! Thanks to 9/11, I’ve got to start a war and swagger around talking tough and people think it’s great! I’ve got pretty much the whole world on-side and the whole Afghan campaign looks like its going great!
OBL: Yeah about that. It’s going much better for you folks than I’d thought it would. My followers are being driven right out of the country and I’m going to have find someplace to lie low for a while. In the meantime, I was wondering if you could do me a favour?
Bush: No sweat man, whatever you want!
OBL: Great! I was thinking you should take out that dick Hussein in Iraq. I know you guys have a bit of a love/hate relationship with him, but he’s been a real pain in our ass. That secular government of his has kept my guys from making any headway in Iraq at all. I mean, sure, he provides a counter-weight to Iran, but who’s really afraid of them anyway?
Anyway, if you could pull a bunch of your troops from Afghanistan and give me some breathing room to rebuild Al Qaeda, you can put together an invasion of Iraq. Your old man already destroyed his army, so you should be able to breeze through to Baghdad in a couple weeks. Of course, you’ll probably lose all that international support you have now, get stuck fighting an increasingly brutal and multi-sided insurgency/civil war, and seriously degrade your military into a broken shell of its former self to the point it will be unable to respond to any other crisis for years to come, but you should be able to get some decent photo ops out of it, at least in the beginning.
Bush: Hey, that’s a great idea! Always wanted to one-up the old man. Boy, I can picture some really good photo ops already. Some Tom Cruise, Top Gun thing!
OBL: Great! I really appreciate it! Probably best you don’t tell anybody this was my idea, though.
Bush: Sure, sure, I’ll write an e-mail to the staff or something.
OBL: Don’t you have to keep those? People will find out.
Bush: Heh, heh, don’t worry. We have ways around that whole archiving thing.
OBL: Cool! And thanks a bunch.
