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A Capacity Self-Deception that Truly Staggers the Imagination. And Not Just Self-Deception. 0

Bush.

Delusional, as always.

Scott Ritter in the Guardian. Read the whole thing (emphasis added):

Bush, in his revealing interview, claimed he wished “that the intelligence had been different”, but that was never really the point. Bush, like so many others, had made up his mind regarding Saddam independent of the facts of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Try as he might to spread responsibility for his actions by pointing out that “a lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein,” the fact is WMD was simply an excuse used by the president to fulfil his self-proclaimed destiny as a war-time president who would avenge his father’s inability (or, more accurately, sage unwillingness) to finish the job back in 1991, in the aftermath of the first Gulf war.

(snip)

The most important aspect of Bush’s interview rests not in what he admits, but rather in what he avoids, when he stated that the failure to find WMD in Iraq was “the biggest regret of all the presidency.” He doesn’t regret the decision that led America to war, or the processes that facilitated the falsification of a case for war. He doesn’t regret the violation of international law, the deaths of so many innocents, the physical destruction of Iraq or America’s loss of its moral high ground. He merely regrets the fact that his “gut feel” on Saddam’s WMD arsenal was wrong.

Furrfu.

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