As millions of Iraqis braved bomb blasts and threats of violence to vote this weekend, voices across the political spectrum in the U.S. praised the democratic elections. But while President Obama announced that "Their participation demonstrates that the Iraqi people have chosen to shape their future through the political process," his conservative opponents claimed vindication for George W. Bush and his war on Saddam. Left out of their narrative, of course, is the inconvenient truth that the United States did not go to war to bring democracy to Iraq. And we know this, because Karl Rove told us so.
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