I think this is like the, what, 10th different rationale Bush has now given us for going to war. We've moved from "weapons of mass destruction program related activities" to "hope." Yes, hope. According to the Wash Post, Bush is now saying that we went to war in Iraq because Saddam "hoped" to someday get WMD, so we blew up his country and killed over 1000 Americans and climbing. Hope. That's it. That's the Bush pre-emption policy. You hope it, you die.
Then Bush added the following:
"Knowing what I know today, I would have made the same decision."Well, that's interesting, because John Kerry has been beaten up in the media for saying he'd have gone in even if we knew there were no WMD. So Bush is saying he'd have launched this entire war, even if he knew there were NO WMD, simply because Saddam "hoped" to get them, even if he wasn't even trying to get them. Now that's a hell of a standard for sending a great nation to war.
