“It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one.” George Washington
2005: President Bush, speaking of Iraq and WMDs, says, “much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong”. There is no mention that the intelligence that turned out to be correct, intelligence indicating that such weapons had been destroyed and that work on the development of such weapons had been discontinued, was ignored by the White House. As VP Cheney said in the administration’s early days “facts are stubborn things”. It is a tragedy that the Bush administration spent so much time ignoring the facts that were true, so that they could pursue the “facts” that they wished to be true.
2005: President Bush speaks about Iraq today: “Despite the violence, Iraqis are optimistic - and that optimism is justified. In all three aspects of our strategy - security, democracy, and reconstruction - we have learned from our experiences, and fixed what has not worked”.
Iraqis might be surprised to learn that what hadn’t been working has now been fixed, as the misery of life in George Bush’s Iraq showed few signs of improvement long after today’s announcement.
2005: The ever-delusional Dick Cheney visits Iraq and concludes that the country has “turned the corner”. Marine Cpl. Bradley Warren asks the Vice President, “From our perspective, we don’t see much as far as gains. I was wondering what it looks like from the big side of the mountain; how Iraq’s looking”. “Well, Iraq’s looking good” Cheney responded. Insurgents would kill more than 30 people today, and the worst was yet to come.
“The law I sign today directs new funds and new focus to the task of collecting vital intelligence on terrorist threats and on weapons of mass production” President Bush, November 27th 2002
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