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Karl Rove Blasts Obama for "Outsourcing Afghanistan"

Thursday 01 October 2009

by: Jeremy Scahill  |  RebelReports

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Karl Rove's Op-Ed in the Wall Street Journal today read: "Obama Can't Outsource Afghanistan." (Photo: JD WMWM / flickr)

Rove blasting anyone for outsourcing anything is like David Vitter lecturing the losers exiting a strip club about the evils of prostitution.

    Now this just simply could not be made up in that Frankenstein laboratory where the cuckoos on the right wing cook up their witches brew of batshit crazy allegations to levy against Barack Obama. There are scores upon scores of issues where Obama should be rightly taken to task for continuing Bush-era "war on terror" policies, preemptively immunizing torturers, refusing to fight for Single Payer health care, hiring a team of hawks and neoliberal crooks to manage foreign policy and the economy, among many many others. At the same time, there are racist astroturf loons that appear to have recently landed on earth from planet Fiction and are navigating their way through the country, speaking in tongues, led by snakeoil salesmen like Glenn Beck.

    But the headline in today's Wall Street Journal Op-Ed by former senior White House advisor Karl Rove is in a category all its own: "Obama Can't Outsource Afghanistan." The article is ostensibly about how Obama is delegating decision making on everything from Afghanistan to the CIA/torture investigation to others:

Mr. Obama's hands-off approach to the war seems to fit his governing style. Over the past year, he outsourced writing the stimulus package to House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey, washed his hands of Attorney General Eric Holder's decision to reinvestigate CIA interrogators, and hasn't offered a detailed health-care plan.

    Um, excuse me Karl, how about outsourcing an entire war to politically connected war companies? Remember those eight years? While Rove may be using the term "outsource" in a general way, let's remember this fact: never, ever in US history have more government and military activities been outsourced to private corporations than they were the day Bush and Rove left 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue and Obama moved in. For Rove-or any Bush-era official-to have the audacity to blast anyone for outsourcing anything is like a bigger-scale version of Republican Senator David Vitter lecturing the losers exiting Scores "gentlemen's club" about the moral evils of prostitution.

    The real article that should come below a headline "Obama Can't Outsource Afghanistan" would never be written by Rove. Such an article would denounce the actual scandal of Obama's continuation of the Bush-Cheney-Rove policy of radically outsourcing the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq to corporate criminals like Armor Group, DynCorp, Blackwater, KBR, Triple Canopy, Lockheed Martin and many, many others.

  

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Oh! Will this crap NEVER

 Fri, 10/02/2009 - 23:39 β€” John (not verified)
Oh! Will this crap NEVER end? Eric Prince (Blackwater) was nearly bankrupt until the Iraq War. Now he is a billionaire. I have come to believe that Justice is not only blind, but DEAD! And that that freak Rove could stand up and make these statements is beyond comprehension. Why bother to say hypocrite. To be called that by these dogs means NOTHING to them. Their only God is MONEY.....always has been, always will be.

Rove must be testing his

 Fri, 10/02/2009 - 23:40 β€” Rex Ozone (not verified)
Rove must be testing his International Relations chops. If his methods of power manipulation are put into the international sphere one could only imagine how many more Abu Gharaibs, Bhagrams and Guantanamos could emerge to foster his sense of righteousness and irresponsibility. His philosophy is truly Beckian.

Question: Will ANY of these

 Sat, 10/03/2009 - 02:44 β€” Robert Walters (not verified)
Question: Will ANY of these war criminals, goons, thieves, charlatans, knaves, swindlers, etc., EVER be held accountable? Will there EVER be a restoration of the "rule of law" in the U. S.? -- I mean, other than the "law of the corporation"; e. g. screw everybody you can, the easy ones twice, and charge it to the taxpayers? Oh, and stash the loot offshore so its out of the reach of even the emasculated DoJ and IRS...

The man's obviously never

 Sat, 10/03/2009 - 06:53 β€” borisjimbo (not verified)
The man's obviously never really looked into a mirror with anything approaching objectivity.

Rove and the right is trying

 Sat, 10/03/2009 - 12:46 β€” Anonymous (not verified)
Rove and the right is trying to trigger the PTSD and discontent with our former commander-in-chief that had accumulated in our armed forces and unleash them on our current democratically elected president. This dude without his nipple clamps is very dangerous.

Rove has had his hands on so

 Sat, 10/03/2009 - 15:35 β€” Anonymous (not verified)
Rove has had his hands on so much bad stuff, he can hardly open his mouth without being ironic. And, well, the same is pretty much true for any Reds who flew the Bush flag. Why can't the Blues spend more time reminding everyone of how absolutely, horribly wrong conshmervatives have been about damn near everything? Not to say the Blues had a perfect record but such a tactic could serve to neutralize the Red noise machine.

How are American people not

 Sat, 10/03/2009 - 22:42 β€” Anonymous (not verified)
How are American people not sick to the stomach with these men walking freely, spouting hypocrisy with what they've done to America?

Karl Rove, the big Dick, the

 Mon, 10/05/2009 - 13:04 β€” granny (not verified)
Karl Rove, the big Dick, the little George and all the high criminals of the previous administration should be hauled into court, tried for their crimes, and imprisoned for three lifetimes each. And the Democratic patriots should be leading the charge. One can only guess why the Dems are being so nicely, cravenly civil. And one can only guess what this cowardice is doing to fuel the evil; machinations in despotic minds all over the globe. If it's OK in America to deceive the people, steal their money, send their troops into combat to further the selfish ends of a few MEN in highest office, it should be OK for every other country to follow the lead of the FREE world.

The Bush administration is

 Thu, 10/22/2009 - 15:16 β€” norrishall (not verified)
The Bush administration is trying to lay spin their failure in Afghanistan and lay it on the new administration. The fact is that after Bush decided to invade Iraq, Afghanistan became a footnote. For every 5 soldiers we sent to Iraq, we sent 1 to Afghanistan. Bush's entire focus was winning the war in Iraq. He falsely believed that the Pakistani government would take care of defeating the Taliban. We know know that the Pakistans instead tried to make deals with the Taliban in exchange for Peace. In 2007, as Senators were demanding to know why the Taliban were retaking much of Afghanistan, The U.S. military's top officer acknowledged .... that for all the importance of preventing Afghanistan from again harboring al-Qaida terrorists, Washington's first priority was Iraq. "In Afghanistan, we do what we can," said Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. "In Iraq, we do what we must." Mullen, testifying with Defense Secretary Robert Gates on the effort to stabilize Afghanistan, said that war is "by design and necessity, an economy-of-force operation. There is no getting around that. Our main focus, militarily, in the region and in the world right now is rightly and firmly in Iraq." http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2007-12-11-3963072919_x.htm

Of course, the spOILs of war

 Wed, 10/28/2009 - 17:01 β€” Anonymous (not verified)
Of course, the spOILs of war for profiteers in Iraq outweigh a pipeline through the poor country of Afghanistan. Predictions that we will not leave Iraq until the last drop of oil has been removed sound valid to me, especially since Dems, with few exceptions, have been enablers for Bush's interminable invasions. "Change" was a typical "campaign promise."

Throwing stones over one's

 Sat, 11/07/2009 - 21:21 β€” La Chatte (not verified)
Throwing stones over one's shoulder to draw attention to what the other guys did is merely an attempt at diversion. Just because those other guys did all those bad things doesn't preclude your doing them as well. If you're naive enough or simply far enough into denial, you just don't want to entertain the thought that the Obama administration is any less corrupt than the Bush administration was. It's not an either/or situation. It is entirely possible for both camps to be bad guys. Obama voters got change-- the corruption is just different. It's not Memorex! It's government.