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Karl Rove today on my TV: "No, no. Tom with all due respect that was not the policy of our government that we were going to go into Iraq and take their resources in order to pay for the cost of the war. ... [T]he suggestion that somehow or another the administration had as its policy, “We’re going to go in to Iraq and take their resource and pay for the war” is not accurate."
Uh huh. I see.
Let's jump in the wayback machine. Set to 2004:
"Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told a congressional panel that Iraqi oil revenues would help pay for reconstructing the country, i.e. a cost of the war. “The oil revenue of that country could bring between 50 and 100 billion dollars over the course of the next two or three years. We’re dealing with a country that could really finance its own reconstruction, and relatively soon,” he said.
One month before the war, then-White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said Iraq “is a rather wealthy country. ... And so there are a variety of means that Iraq has to be able to shoulder much of the burden for their own reconstruction.”
Meanwhile the tea party morons want to hand the country back to these lying scumbags,
Fuck a rake.