CORRECTION: Rove caught smiling at Tomb of the Unknown Soldier

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BIG CORRECTION -- Not at Arafat's funeral. At the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, Rove was smiling as he took his place with Powell and Wolfowitz? On CNN. Probably didn't know the cameras were on him. Couldn't erase that shit eating grin.

Mistakenly thought it was Arafat's funeral because CNN was talking about it as they carried the casket.

[displacedtexan]

1. What's a political campaign operative doing...

attending a (sort of) state funeral?

[tanyev]

2. Why is he there?

Not a head of state. Officially.

[eek]

11. you sure it was Arafat's thing?

there is a wreath-laying ceremony in Arlington Nat Cer. right now.

Arafat's coffin was being taken by french soldiers to the Egypt-bound plane.
The French uniforms look a little like our guy's.

[liberal N proud]

3. He is probably proud of himself

Two coups in two weeks
Stolen Election
Killed Arafat

[TrueAmerican]

4. It's not Arafat's funeral

It is laying the wreath at Tombs of Unknowns.

[cubsfan forever]

7. Yeah, like he and the other chickenhawks

would know anything about that. :puke: on Rove

Professor 2

[Carni]

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9. Wait til I wipe the egg off my face.

They were talking about Arafat's funeral as they were bringing in the casket. I'll correct the header. Thanks!

[Carni]

12. No leave it! LOL

I haven't laughed in a week this has been very therapeutic! :)

[Carni]

10. LOL! I don't know why that just struck me as so funny!

Must be the stress of the bush nazi getting back in office...but the original poster's confusing a veteran's day ceremony, with Arafat's funeral, just made me spit my beverage all over the place!

(Shame on me I guess I am getting punchy)

[cubsfan forever]

5. He doesn't care. The fascists realize that

they can do whatever they want re "Peace in the Middle East."
e.g., :nuke:

Professor 2

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[Gato Moteado]

13. no doubt....

he sounds a lot like bush and sharon.

[eek]

14. Arafat's state funeral is Friday, i think.

It would be easy to get mixed up: there are dress-blue ceremonial soldier things on all the channels, simultaneously.

What's more, with Blair over in the US hanging with his boss, it does make for a mixed up image-stew.


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[Maat]

16. But I hope what replaces him isn't worse.

[liberDave]

23. Only hope is...

the Palestinian people will wake up and renounce terrorism. If their new leader is worse than Arafat then they will reap what they sow.

[xchrom]

17. yeah he was so much worse than the israelies

occupying palestine.
hhmmm -- sure. what ever.

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19. They ALWAYS sock away money they could use for their people

don't they? Doesn't matter what country they're from.

[petepillow]

15. This may sound like a silly newbie question...

But is there a website devoted to tracking Rove's misdeeds? Some kind of evidence compiler or forum or anything devoted to Rove at all? Seems like our Kingpin of Evil deserves one just as much as * does.

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21. Someone, then, should try to get a screen shot of his smile.

[Roxy66]

18. He is such a pig!!

[Selwynn]

20. Same thing happened to Clinton - it means nothing

Clinton was as a funeral and the cameras caught him when he was joking to somone, then he got all serious :)

That can happen to anyone. Rove is an ass, but we all have been in places where we've gotten caught having inappropriate reactions and bad times. It isn't particularly indicative of anything.

[The Backlash Cometh]

22. Hey, it's payback time.

If we want to hit them in the kisser, we're going to have to stoop down to their level. ;-)

[ComerPerro]

24. And the right wing went nuts when it happened

[Selwynn]

26. And we are NOT the right wing.

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27. No. We're not. But sometimes when you're trying to open someone's

eyes, you have to turn their own weapon against them.

[Selwynn]

28. By pointing out the hypocrisy, not becoming the hypocrisy.

[CBHagman]

25. Considering he's repeatedly smeared veterans...

...Colin Powell should have kicked him in the shins, hard, instead of greeting him.

"Don't talk to him, Powell," muttered my editor as he saw the footage of Powell talking to Rove before the ceremony.

By the way, does anyone have a count on just how many veterans Rove has smeared? I'd count Daschle, Gore, Kerry, Cleland, and McCain, but I'm not sure if that's complete.