Bush's spinmeiser Rove behind Wilson/Plame smear campaign?

Rove posing as a patriot

There’s evidence that one of President Bush’s key aids was involved with the leak that revealed a CIA agent’s identity. Republican political hack Karl Rove is being named as someone who told Time Magazine that a whistleblower against the Bush’s weapons of mass destructions lies was a CIA agent. More background of the story from two years ago, White House treasonable dirty tricks against whistleblower’s wife.

The first question: are we surprised? Of course the smear campaign was orchestrated out of the White House. The whole war has everything to do with politics. Facts were inconveniences when it came to building a case against iraq. We now know that the decade of sanctions against Saddam Hussein worked. His military was a shambles and he had no money to engage in researching or building weapons of mass destruction. The war was a political ploy by the White House. It propped up the President and kept terrorism in the spotlight. I wouldn’t be at all surprised if the London bombings were carried out by iraqi insurgents, people who might not be terrorists if we hadn’t gone and invaded iraq (yes, there were terrorist before but every act of violence inspires acts of counter-violence).

Karl Rove’s job has been to get George W. Bush elected and then re-elected. The role of political consultants is supposed to stop there. The job of governance and statemanship should be left to the President himself. This Administration is more overtly political than any in recent history. Why was Karl Rove selling the war against iraq?