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A Tough Liberal says Flush Karl Rove

By Joe Scordato

On 9/11, I watched from my office window in 30 Rockefeller Plaza as smoke poured from the WTC on floors I had been a few months earlier. I saw the fireball from the second plane come out the side of a building where I used to work and where my wife was a few moments before.

I knew it was war then and now and the world would not be the same. Although I was still pissed about Bush v. Gore and had no use for W, I was one of the 90% of the population who supported Bush in those early days in saying Let's go get OBL and the Taliban protecting him and destroying Afghanistan. My support ended when Bush let Osama get away at Tora Bora because Rumsfeld didn't want to damage his pet theory that you can do the job without a lot of troops.

Then before we finished with Al Queda, Bush went into Iraq. He hasn't finished Afghanistan or gotten OBL, but he has managed to destroy the US aura of strength, create a hollowed out army, dragged the good name of America through the mud of arrogance, torture and lying, and left us even more vulnerable to terrorists, all at a cost of billions.

He's hailed as a bold thinker, except all he's done is repeat the same old conservative clap-trap of the past 75 years. A bold thinker would have said let's not be in thrall to the oil merchants funding our enemies. Let's make our economy strong by manufacturing products invented here that wean us from oil.

Now Karl says liberals are traitors and Democrats aren't tough enough to protect the country. I say we're tough enough to protect the country from scroundrels who as always find their last refuge in religion and politics, as well as from terrorists outside the country. It's time for them to go. Rove is no turd-blossom, he's just a turd. Democrats should say no more co-operation on anything until Karl and the scum like him are flushed away. Let's put our program in front of the US and ask for an up-or-down vote. Then we'll show them who's tough enough. No surrender.