Vet Asks Rove To Apologize For War
When speaking at the University of Connecticut this week, Bush “architect” Karl Rove was confronted by a 32-year-old Iraq war veteran who wanted an apology.
Click here for reuse options!Ryan Henowitz told Rove about the horrors he witnessed and the horrible injuries and casualties from fellow soldiers and Iraqi civilians. He asked, “Can you take responsibility and apologize for your decision in sending a generation to lose their humanity and deal with the horrors of war, which you have never had the courage to face? Will you apologize to the millions of fathers and mothers who lost their children on both sides of this useless war?”
Rove told Henowitz, “I’m sorry for what you went through, but it was the right thing to remove Sadaam Hussein from power.” He talked about Hussein giving the finger to the U.N., and said the mistake the U.S. is making now is leaving them alone “because when we left them, things deteriorated.”
And had the U.S. stayed, he said, ISIS wouldn’t have ground, millions wouldn’t have been displaced, and thousands of people wouldn’t have died for their religious beliefs.
Henowitz told The Hartford Courant he’s been frustrated at how “the individuals involved with the planning of the Iraq War have not addressed a lot of the problems they have created,” and he wanted to hear Rove talking about those problems.
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9 responses to Vet Asks Rove To Apologize For War
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jasperjava April 3rd, 2015 at 19:34
War criminals will never apologize for their crimes.
That’s why we need war crimes tribunals to make them accountable.
Suzanne McFly April 3rd, 2015 at 19:40
“And had the U.S. stayed, he said, ISIS wouldn’t have ground”
And had the U.S. never gone into Iraq, ISIS may never have come to exist.
Suzanne McFly April 3rd, 2015 at 20:01
A quick add…..I am very surprised UCONN wanted him to come to the school and speak. He must of faced some protesters, I will go look at my local news and see if there was a story I missed. It would be hard for me to miss, I read the news every day.
Jake April 3rd, 2015 at 20:23
What a slime-bag – he didn’t have any guts then and he doesn’t have any guts now.
jybarz April 3rd, 2015 at 20:33
The way I saw it, W wanted to finish his dad’s unfinished work of taking down Saddam Hussein after defending Kuwait. So ham-head Rove, W & Co. lied about WMD to justify going to war with Iraq.
You can ask for apology until you turn blue in the face, but these bastards are proud of their war based on a lie.
oldfart April 3rd, 2015 at 20:50
the entire bush administration should send President Obama
a thank you note. just saying.
fancypants April 3rd, 2015 at 22:31
If UCONN paid rove more then a vending machine bottomless cup of coffee ? they got ripped off
Dwendt44 April 3rd, 2015 at 23:43
Conservatives never make mistakes, so no apology is needed. /s
Roctuna April 4th, 2015 at 10:33
IOKIYAR, being a warmonger means never having to say you’re sorry.