Well, not just “evidence” but proof. Yeah, Bush looked for people who would tell him what he could use to promote the war and ignored warnings. The shifting justifications for the war are all unnecesary because it’s clear that Bush just wanted to invade Iraq and it was a marketing problem, not a foreign policy challenge to be solved.
Dear lord, who cares at this point? I have to figure that the remaining Bush Boosters would have to be personally punched in the face by Dubya before accepting that maybe Bush didn’t have the best judgment when he convinced the country to back his leadership on Iraq. And the rest of us seem to be in this “well, not much we can do about it now” funk.
The only point has to be simple blowing off steam — expressing frustration. Because, really, it wastes your time and annoys the pig.
Updated to add, When He’s Right, He’s Right:
The president said:
“Failure in Iraq will cause generations to suffer, in my judgment. Al Qaeda will be emboldened. They will say, yes, once again, we’ve driven the great soft America out of a part of the region. It will cause them to be able to recruit more. It will give them safe haven. They are a direct threat to the United States.
Best thing I’ve heard Bush say recently. The only problem is that we seem to have a disagreement about what “failure” means.
Failure is not a mark on a calendar. A whole day can be a failure. A whole week. A whole year. A whole plan, or policy, or lack of a plan… the effect of which spans years and generations. In some cases, it might even seem like a whole presidency is a failure, or a whole life.
So, yes, Mr. President. We agree that your failure when it comes to the totality of your policies on Iraq will cause generations to suffer. The troops have not failed us in Iraq. You have failed us by sending them there. You talk about these things as if you had some grand plan that would have worked wonderfully except for… I don’t know… poor execution on the part of unnamed parties. In reality, the fish rotted from the head down. It stunk at conception.
But I am being insincere. I know this is not what Bush means. He means that he has an unlimited supply of chances to erase his failure. In other words, if you fail, and then promise to fix it sometime in the future, you haven’t really failed. But how can you possibly fix it if you can’t even admit you’ve failed in the first place?
You just hope against hope that someone will take over before anyone holds you accountable.
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The only point has to be simple blowing off steam — expressing frustration.Indeed. Sigh.
For some reason, I refuse to give up. But I couldn't tell you why; it's clearly a lost cause. The best we can hope for is someone else in power in 2009 who will fix what can be fixed.