Weekend Watchdog

Every Friday in our Weekend Watchdog feature, we post suggested questions for scheduled Sunday guests. You can add your own questions in the comment thread. We'll also include contact information for the shows, so we can let them know what their viewers want asked.

And on Sunday at 4 PM ET, tune in to Air America Radio's "Seder on Sundays" program, where I'll offer the Weekend Watchdog Wrap-Up.

For Karl Rove (Fox News Sunday): Earlier this month, you told PBS' Charlie Rose that it wasn't President Bush that rushed to attack Iraq without finishing weapons inspections, but Congress:

ROVE: ...one of the untold stories about the war is why did the United States Congress, the United States Senate, vote on the war resolution in the fall of 2002 ... This administration was opposed to it ... the administration was opposed to voting on it in the fall of 2002.

ROSE: Because?

ROVE: Because we didn't think it belonged within the confines of the election. There was an election coming up within a matter of weeks. We thought it made it too political. We wanted it outside the confines of it. It seemed to make things move too fast. There were things that needed to be done to bring along allies and potential allies abroad...

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ROSE: Because your argument -- your argument is you would have had maybe more inspections. You would have been able to build a broader coalition. You could have done a whole lot other things if you didn`t have to have a vote, right?

ROVE: Right, right, exactly.

However, you have been contradicted by then-Senate leader Tom Daschle, your former White House boss Andy Card and of course, the contemporaneous words of Bush and Rumsfeld.

How stupid do you think people are?

For Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. (CBS’ Face The Nation): You said during the last debate that the “surge ... is succeeding and we are winning the war in Iraq.”

But Washington Post reporter Thomas Ricks, described by Editor & Publisher as “one of the level-headed, and accurate, reporters on the Iraq war since its inception,” recently said:

Well, things are going better. I just got back from Baghdad last week, and it was clear that violence has decreased. But it hasn't gone away. It is only back down to the 2005 level -- which to my mind is kind of like moving from the eighth circle of hell to the fifth...

...one reason that the city is quieter is because of the presence of American troops. But ... another reason is that some Sunni neighborhoods are walled off, and other Sunni areas have been ethnically cleansed. In addition, the Shiite death squads, in addition to killing a lot of innocents, also killed some of the car bomb guys, I am told.

Where is Iraq going, in political terms? Currently, nowhere.

If the surge failed to stop ethnic cleansing, round up the death squads and spark political reconciliation, how can you say it’s a success?

For former Gov. Mike Huckabee, R-Ark. (ABC’s This Week): During the last debate you defended your proposal to provide scholarships to immigrant children in Arkansas illegally, saying it would have helped to “bring people from illegal status to legal status.”

But your campaign website says: “Those caught trying to enter illegally must be detained, processed, and deported ... The Governor opposes and will not tolerate sanctuaries for illegals. The federal government must crack down on rogue cities that willfully undermine our economy and national security.”

Which is it?

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