Moon of Alabama Brecht quote
February 13, 2007
Rove admits Bin Laden is Fiction

Karl Rove finally admits Bin Laden and/or his ideas are phantasies. Things that do not even exist.
More precise: to read writings attributed to Osama is like reading words, thoughts and pages that do not exist even while you read them. Quite a trip …

To make the world a safe place for future generations, victory can be the only goal for the United States in the war in Iraq, presidential adviser Karl Rove said Monday in Springfield.
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Creation of a radical Islamic empire from "Spain to Indonesia" and beyond, the destruction of Israel "by whatever means are available" and creation of Iraq as a "sanctuary from which to operate" are among goals that bin Laden has spelled out in writings compiled in a book, "Messages to the World: The Statements of Osama bin Laden," Rove said.

"It’s like reading ‘Mein Kampf’ in 1922," he said, referring to Adolph Hitler’s book.
Rove: U.S. must win in Iraq

Mein Kampf (English translation: My Struggle or My Fight) is the signature work of Adolf Hitler, combining elements of autobiography with an exposition of Hitler’s political ideology of Nazism. Volume 1 of Mein Kampf was published in 1925, with volume 2 in 1926.
Wikipedia: Mein Kampf

Comments

A cheap pun, hardly worth a front page story. Comment material at best.

Posted by: Araneidae | Feb 13 2007 21:34 utc | 1

Karl Rove finally admits Bin Laden and/or his ideas are phantasies.

Dang!
Nearly gave me a heart attack!
Wish it was true!!!

Posted by: tucson_heat | Feb 13 2007 21:40 utc | 2

Karl Rove finally admits Bin Laden and/or his ideas are phantasies.

Dang!
Nearly gave me a heart attack!
Wish it was true!!!

Posted by: tucson_heat | Feb 13 2007 21:41 utc | 3

Will Rove ever admit he reads, lives and breaths nothing but the hagiography of elitist philosopher Saint Leo Strauss, like he (Rove), was some kind twisted saint apostle? Like he and his ilk gathered the divine truth, through ecstatic insight. I suspect Rove fancy’s himself a blessed neo-Henry Suso, carving of Strauss or is it Jabotinsky, or Schmitt, into his chest…

Posted by: Uncle $cam | Feb 13 2007 22:17 utc | 4

if we imagine the inside of the skull of karl rove – i thionk it might look like the deserted set of gilligans island – with a number of primers on the sands strauss for dummies, schmitt for dthe stupid, heidegger for the heartless
what is require is a form of liposuction where the man would dissapear – & he has that in common with martin bormann – both resemble brown sacks of shit or of half swallowed sausages

Posted by: remembereringgiap | Feb 13 2007 22:22 utc | 5

My god, how convenient. The man last seen living in a cave on kidney dialysis some 6 years ago has managed to write and publish a book, no less, right on cue — just in time to supplement the smoking hot evidence of freshly minted weapons out of Iran, stamped with the “November 2006” in the Gregorian calendar… aaaah, we are truly TRULY living in a banana republic…..

Posted by: Bea | Feb 14 2007 2:57 utc | 6

A little bit O/T…
Proud to be an American?
http://blog.b92.net/node/4203
(USA)…Are you heaven on Earth or the gloom of the grave?
Is the United States really no more than a bread and circus state?

Posted by: vbo | Feb 14 2007 3:56 utc | 7

Eh, Laibach isn’t for American consumption. They don’t expect that US people will start questioning things while listening to them. At best they hope that some European blokes will being to think.

Posted by: CluelessJoe | Feb 14 2007 9:40 utc | 8

It was a good poke at old Rove, no matter what the first guy wrote.
I am amazed that so many believe every little item attributed to the supposedly all powerful Bin Laden. He communicates a lot for a dead guy; who is channeling him?

Posted by: Bucky | Feb 14 2007 11:27 utc | 9

WIpe OUt!
Bush rode the OSaMa WaVe for a good long while.
Actually, contrary to post #1, there is a lot of interesting stuff to look at in Rove’s 45 minute speech. Here are some other gems from the linked article:
He said tax cuts to families and businesses have “powered the American economy.”
Huh? More like consumer debt has powered the American economy.
“Now, we can set our next goal, which is to balance the budget by 2012, Rove said.”
You can now set your “next goal”? Gee, we all can hardly wait. Yeah, you guys sure are “conservative” when it comes to spending our money. And by 2012 eh? Looks like yet another disaster you are passing on as a legacy. All that America and the rest of the world received from your huge spending was a lot of death, ruble, and more terrorism. Quite an investment there “Mr. Brain” Mr. Rove, please don’t set any more goals, just resign.

Posted by: Rick | Feb 14 2007 15:05 utc | 10

OOPS!
That’s “rubble” not “ruble” above. Gee, must have been a Freudian slip, considering B’s previous thread “Russia is Back”.

Posted by: Rick | Feb 14 2007 15:12 utc | 11