IRAQ — CARD REJECTS ROVE’S CLAIM THAT CONGRESS PUSHED BUSH TO WAR: ‘HIS MOUTH GETS AHEAD OF HIS BRAIN’: Former White House adviser Karl Rove recently asserted that “[t]he administration was opposed” to voting for a war resolution in the fall of 2002. “It seemed to make things move too fast,” he argued. As ThinkProgress documented, key leaders in both the House and the Senate — including then-Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-SD) — were asking Bush in 2002 to delay the war vote. But as Daschle recalled, when he asked Bush to delay the vote, Bush “looked at Cheney and he looked at me, and there was a half-smile on his face. And he said: ‘We just have to do this now.’” This morning, the White House chief of staff at the time, Andrew Card, appeared on MSNBC and completely discredited Rove’s argument. “Karl Rove went on Charlie Rose and he blamed the Democrats for pushing him and the president into war. Is that how it worked?” asked host Joe Scarborough. “No, that’s not the way it worked,” replied Card. “Sometimes his mouth gets ahead of his brain.”

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