Karl #Rove played a leading role in the lead-up to the #IraqWar.[45][46] In 2002 and 2003, Rove chaired meetings of the #WhiteHouseIraqGroup (WHIG), an internal White House working group established in August 2002, eight months prior to the 2003 invasion of #Iraq. #WHIG was charged with developing a strategy "for #publicizing the White House's assertion that #SaddamHussein posed a t#hreat to the #UnitedStates.".[47]
A #republican lie of course
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Rove#Iraq_War

@Tony_Meredith Sheryl Craig & Janine Barchas have documented the political context & other #CharacterNames convincingly, but although the characters of #EdmundBurke & the fictitious #CatherineDeBourgh are discussed, & other #Whig names make political references clear, I have not seen the name discussed explicitly.
Modern readers may not realise that these are variant spellings? but there were Irish #Burgh & #Burke peers in Jane’s time, both using variants of the original Burgh arms.

#WordsThatArent #NYTimes #NYT #LetterBoxed #onlinegame #whig (#propernoun)