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Thursday, December 15, 2005

he was wrong, but he'd do it again in a second

I love this story about Bush "taking responsibility" for his decision to invade Iraq. The gist? The intelligence was wrong, but it was still a great idea, and he'd gladly do the whole preemptive thing again.

Whew! For a second there I thought he was actually going to admit some kind of mistake or something. My favourite quote:
"In an age of terrorism and weapons of mass destruction, if we wait for threats to fully materialize, we will have waited too long."
Maybe this one could use a few helpful edits:
"In an age of terrorism [with no links to the countries we want to invade] and weapons of mass destruction [which didn't exist in the first place], if we wait for threats to fully materialize [which might never happen], we will have waited too long [because we won't have any excuse to invade them]."
That's better. Here's the article.