Aula 23 - O caso Karl Rove

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Exemplo 1:

As declarações que encontrei de Karl Rove provêem da transcrição de uma cassete revelada pelo "Washington Post", a 13 de Março de 2006. Esta conversa é feita entre K. Rove, o Presidente Bush e 4 dos seus conselheiros séniores da Casa Branca.

Não traduzo o texto para que este seja fiel ao original (que se encontra neste síto), assim sendo também não vou omitir (mais do que já foi omitido) a asneira dita por um dos protagonistas do conteúdo desta cassete.

"KARL ROWE: Mr. President, we need to develop an exit strategy for our forces in Iraq ASAP. Otherwise we'll be caught in the middle of a civil war between the Shiites and the Sunnis.

PRESIDENT BUSH: How do you expect me to break this to the media and the American people after saying we're in this War on Terrorism for the long haul? It'll make me look like I've got no meatballs between my legs.

PAUL WOLFOWITZ: I'm sorry, Mr. President, but all our calculations were five bricks short of a full load. Blame it on the CIA if you have to but I think Vice-President Cheney, Defence Secretary Rumsfeld and I might have watched too many John Wayne movies when we were growing up. It looks like Colin Powell was right. Those Iraqis don't think like Americans after all. They never read the comic books about Sgt. Fury and His Howling Commandos when they were little nippers like we did.

RUMSFELD: If they had of seen the movie, The Bridge on the River Kwai or The Sands of Iowa Jima, I think we'd be in better shape, Mr. President.

PRESIDENT BUSH: So, what your're saying is we bail out and leave all that Iraqi sweet crude behind? What about the pipelines we planned through Afghanistan?

KARL ROWE: We've got to try and set up this puppet regime ASAP and then put on the vanishing cream. Otherwise the GOP is up shit creek without a paddle in 2008. Our deficit has ballooned to $175 trillion with no end in sight. It's a hole we can't dig ourselves out of.

PAUL WOLFOWITZ: That's right, Mr. President. This pre-emptive war business doesn't appear to work with cultures where tribalism is rooted in three thousand years of history. Soomer or later we've got to start thinking about the potholes around the Beltway.

RUMSFELD: We've got enough people to screw in North America without travelling half-way around the world to find people to f*ck over.

CHENEY: Christ, Mr. President ... there's enough quail in America to hunt to last me the rest of my life!

PRESIDENT BUSH: OK, boys. Just remember to pack enough canned beer in Air Force One for when I break the news to those pisstanks in the media. If we can get them drunk enough, perhaps they'll declare me a war hero. Print up a million copies of "When Johnny Jarhead Comes Marching Home" OK?

ROWE, CHENEY, WOLFOWITZ and RUMSFElD (in unison): Hail to the Chief!"

Exemplo 2:

Neste site encontro uma declaração de Rove sobre o caso da agente da CIA.

"MR ROVE: Good afternoon. Thank you for coming. This will be brief. Today, many news organizations are emerging from their summertime journalistic comas to discover months-old indications that yours truly, Karl H. Rove, took personal and illegal revenge upon Joseph A. Wilson – one of President Bush's most prominent detractors – by revealing classified information about his wife being an undercover CIA agent – thereby undermining national security and jeopardizing a life that is apparently of value to a handful of people outside of the White House.
And while I am not at liberty to comment directly on the veracity of these allegations, let me just say that I want Americans to believe that it breaks my heart that anyone could possibly believe that I am so vindictive, ethically bankrupt, and politically vicious as to invite syndicated columnist Bob Novak to a romantic dinner for two at Annie's Paramount Steak House on July 12th at 7pm, then intentionally leak details over an apple dumpling dessert that would endanger the loved ones of my most monomaniacally despised ideological nemeses. That's all I have to say on the matter. Thank you, and good day. "