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Communist Party Statement on Karl Rove

The Communist Party, USA calls for Karl Rove to be fired and prosecuted. Working people have more than enough reasons for removing Rove from the government and putting him on trial, and several are sufficient even for the Republican Party.
Rove is now under fire for his role in defending and covering up lies which the Bush Administration used to build support for their invasion and occupation of Iraq. Rove launched an immoral attack on public officials who would not bear false witness in support of Bush’s illegal operations. Rove not only lied in public; he violated U.S. law and testified falsely to a grand jury. As Paul Krugman wrote in the New York Times, “If a Democrat had done that, Republicans would call it treason.”

The lies Rove covered up were no garden-variety denials caused by personal weakness. They sent thousands of U.S. soldiers to suffer wounds and death in an unnecessary, illegal war that has killed hundreds of thousands of Iraqi civilians. Every week brings more casualties. Young men and women, pushed into abusing and torturing prisoners and civilians will be scarred for life.

For thirty-five years Rove has been a dirty trickster and smear specialist mobilizing huge amounts of corporate cash to put far-right Republicans into power. From his political start infiltrating opponents’ electoral campaigns, to teaching dirty tricks to “College Republicans,” to his hit squad attacks on George W. Bush’s rivals, to mobilizing the goon squads who flew in corporate jets to stop the 2000 Florida Presidential vote count, to his designs for Gerrymandering Texas and disenfranchising voters throughout the country, he has become a significant “big lie” operative in our country. As an individual, Rove is a thug who should be removed from power and prevented from doing further harm to the U.S. people.

Rove’s complicity points directly to the Bush Administration’s criminal policy to impose the iron heel of corporate power around the world and in the U.S. Prosecuting Rove can help uncover those high crimes and misdemeanors so that Bush, Cheney and others higher up can be brought closer to justice.

The Communist Party is optimistic. We know that we face a hard struggle, but we are confident that the people of our country will one day reclaim our democracy enough to bring Rove, Bush, Chaney and Co. to justice. Victory in next year’s Congressional elections, as those who are seriously thinking of impeachment know, can make that day sooner rather than later.
 
 

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