NEVER APOLOGIZE, NEVER EXPLAIN

I thought the goal of The Surge was to "win"? At least, that's what the Talk Radio Republicans said.


Rove takes questions on Iraq, CIA case
Brent Gardner-Smith - Aspen Daily News Staff Writer
Sun 07/08/2007
09:01PM MST


"Look, I make no apologies," Rove said in response to a question from the audience about whether he felt personally responsible for the war. "It was the right thing to do. The world is better off with him gone," he said, referring to Saddam Hussein. "We all thought he had weapons of mass destruction. The whole world did. He didn't."


Aspen Institute CEO Walter Isaacson interviewed Rove at the morning session of the Ideas Festival and asked him if the Bush administration would redefine the mission in Iraq. "Yes, we will be redefining the mission because the goal of the surge was to get us to a place where we could redefine the mission," said Rove. "Our goal is to be in a place where the United States' principle role is to help protect the territorial integrity of Iraq, to hunt down al-Qaida and Jihadist elements, to assist and train the Iraqi army, and to provide force protection to our assets there."