This is from www.mediachannel.org. Bill Isreal offers a glimpse of Karl Rove from the perspective of a friend and coworker. But he's not blinded by his friendship. http://www.mediachannel.org/views/dissector/affalert405.shtml Save the First Amendment -- from Karl Rove By Bill Israel Editor & Publisher NEW YORK, JULY 6, 2005

The utterances from the mouth of G. W. Bush in his address to the nation (6/28) were nothing more than the same old tripe... a litany of rosy proposals, future meetings and talk of "cooperative efforts," all intermixed with the everpresent reminders of 9-11. He regifted the same old packaged bile about the hard work of the good ol' USA and the other "30 nations" trying to bring democracy to Iraq. He presented his usual frantic flag waving prose, full of paltitudes, short on substance, and desparately attempting to conceal the reality of Iraq today. But his flags have become tattered and the American public is beginning to get a clearer picture of the truth behind the fluttering facade... today's truth, not what George hopes we imagine on the horizon. We see the carnage and devastation that has been wrought upon the nation of Iraq. We see the death and chaos.