Karl Rove Says Bush Wouldn't Have Invaded Iraq Had He Known There Was No WMD's
From: Telegraph.co.uk
Mr Rove rejects allegations that the administration lied about the presence of the weapons in Saddam Hussein's arsenal, leading the US and Britain into war in Iraq.
Instead, Mr Rove, who served as senior adviser and deputy chief of staff, offers a defence of Mr Bush's presidency, pointing to Democrats who accepted intelligence on WMDs as well.
"Would the Iraq War have occurred without WMD? I doubt it," he writes in "Courage and Consequence: My Life as a Conservative in the Fight".
"Congress was very unlikely to have supported the use-of-force resolution without the WMD threat. The Bush administration itself would probably have sought other ways to constrain Saddam, bring about regime change, and deal with Iraq's horrendous human rights violations."
He adds: "So, then, did Bush lie us into war? Absolutely not."
The book, which will be published next week in America, offers one of the most intimate portraits of decision-making in Mr Bush's White House.
