thinkprogress.org — On the Bill Press Show this morning, former Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) dismissed Karl Rove?s false claim that Democrats in Congress ? not the Bush administration ? forced a war vote prior to the 2002 midterm elections. Daschle called Rove?s ?outrageous statements? a ?joke? and a clear effort to ?sell some books?
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"It was definitely the Bush administration that set it in motion and determined the timing, not the Congress. I think Karl in this instance just has his facts wrong."-- former Bush press secretary Ari Fleischer, on Karl Rove's insistence that Congress rushed the country to war in Iraq Fleischer was in a position to know, after all...