Ms Rice looks not at all at ease nor comfortable with our closest allies from overseas. imagine that. and how embarrassing.

to me, at least.

…she and Clarence are in a contest to see…

…which one ‘de massa’ will pee on first…

Comment by Jesus Christ God of WAR #58

Yo, JCGW!

…and it felt GRRRREEEAAAT!

Anyone know the reference?

It probably is something like that -although I doubt Hussein could have met whatever expectation the Bush administration had.

They simply were bent on invading Iraq, the world be damned.

Also, we don’t need to wait for history to judge them, as it is happening right now (I love these quotes):

Bush’s invasion of Iraq [is] “the greatest strategic disaster in United States history.”
–Lt. Gen. William Odom, director of the National Security Agency during President Reagan’s second term, and a scholar with a distinguished career in military intelligence.
The Greatest Strategic Disaster in U.S. History

Bush arguably has committed the greatest strategic blunder in modern memory. To put it bluntly, he attacked the wrong target. While he boasts of removing Saddam Hussein from power, he did far more than that. He decapitated the government of a country that was not directly threatening the United States and, in so doing, bogged down a huge percentage of our military in a region that never has known peace.
–James Webb Jr., first Assistant Secretary of Defense for Reserve Affairs during the Reagan Administration, and former Secretary of the Navy
Veterans Face Conundrum: Kerry or Bush?

The “right strategic decision was made”? I don’t think so…

That’s my understanding of how Bush and the Repubs parse their way around the obvious meaning of the words that Bush speaks.

(…)and therefore, we worked with the world, we worked to make sure that Saddam Hussein heard the message of the world. And when he chose to deny inspectors, when he chose not to disclose, then I had the difficult decision to make to remove him. And we did, and the world is safer for it.
–Pres George Bush, March 21, 2006 during a press conference

Pres Bush is still trying to rewrite history claiming Hussein denied the inspectors’ entry into Iraq and that he refused to cooperate.

I don’t recall anyone (even ThinkProgress) covering this one -but then it’s really tough to keep up with all the lies coming out of the White House.

t seems to be quite an admission from Secretary of State Rice. In fact, I’m amazed that she said this….

All the available evidence was ignored in their push to sell the war to a gullible American public. Like this one:

[Deputy National Security Adviser Stephen J. ] Hadley was particularly concerned that the public might learn of a classified one-page summary of a National Intelligence Estimate, specifically written for Bush in October 2002. The summary said that although “most agencies judge” that the aluminum tubes were “related to a uranium enrichment effort,” the State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research and the Energy Department’s intelligence branch “believe that the tubes more likely are intended for conventional weapons.”
Three months after receiving that assessment, the president stated without qualification in his January 28, 2003, State of the Union address: “The British government has learned that Saddam Hussein recently sought significant quantities of uranium from Africa. Our intelligence sources tell us that he has attempted to purchase high-strength aluminum tubes suitable for nuclear weapons production.”
PREWAR INTELLIGENCE – Insulating Bush

At last count, 2300+ and counting.