If these people weren't sitting the White House, still, having done the horrendous damage they have done to this nation, its people and our constitution and been responsible for the murders of hundreds of thousands of innocent men, women and children, not to mention sanctioning torture by making it U.S. policy, they would be pitiful, tragic figures better left to live out their miserable lives in obscurity.
Unfortunately for them, they cannot be left alone in their own false religious, immoral squalor. They must be punished, and so they shall be.
Sidney Blumenthal
Even before the date of his resignation from the White House took effect, Karl Rove furiously launched himself on his legacy tour. Appearing on three Sunday morning TV shows over the past weekend he was intent on demonstrating the range of his political, military and literary mastery. Rove rattled off statistics of minority group voting patterns for President Bush in the 2004 election as if the moment were the apotheosis of the Republican Party. He cited Napoleon in order to justify the Iraq war -- "Look, Napoleon said that your battle plan doesn't survive the first contact with the enemy, but you still have to have a plan" -- but not Napoleon's remark after the retreat from Moscow: "There is only one step from the sublime to the ridiculous." And Rove thrashed around in search of an appropriate character from fiction to describe his ineffable and immortal being. "I'm Moby-Dick," he began, but, dissatisfied with identifying himself as the great white whale, drew upon his wellspring of literature for yet other self-projections. "Let's face it. I mean, I'm a myth, and they're -- you know, I'm Beowulf. You know, I'm Grendel. I don't know who I am. But they're after me." Hunted and hunter, beast and warrior, author of his own tale nonetheless suffering an identity crisis, a figure transcendent beyond history still pursued down dark alleys, Rove finally rested on a note of paranoia. If the demons were after him, what would he not do to punish them?
When questioned about his indisputable part in the outing of covert CIA operative Valerie Plame Wilson, Rove did what came easiest to him, distorting reality, mangling facts and baldfaced lying -- "dissembling, to put it charitably," as Matthew Cooper, the former Time magazine reporter, said on NBC's "Meet the Press" after observing Rove's interview there. Rove's performance included not only petulantly refusing to apologize to Plame ("No!"); repeating various canards about former ambassador Joseph Wilson; claiming that he had not told MSBNC "Hardball" host Chris Matthews, as Matthews had reported, that "Wilson's wife is fair game"; but also mimicking word for word the perjured testimony of Vice President Cheney's former chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, who had falsely insisted that he had not planted stories about Plame with reporters but after learning of her identity from them had replied, "I've heard that, too." "I remember saying, 'I've heard that, too,'" said Rove brightly. "To imply that he didn't know about [Plame's identity], or that he heard it in some rumor out in the hallways, is nonsense," commented Cooper.
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