Yesterday President Bush admitted that he was responsible for sending our country to war on bad intelligence. What gets me is that he still thinks that invading Iraq was the right thing to do regardless. Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t see how the ends justify the means. Is Iraq better off? Perhaps, or perhaps not. I was surprised to see that John McCain was suckered in by Bush’s latest speech. He of all people should be able to see that this is little more than a ploy to up the President’s ratings while not actually admitting wrongdoing. Bush even had the audacity to claim credit for fixing the problems with intelligence that his administration created in the first place! At least it hasn’t seemed to have an effect yet. NBC mentioned this morning that the President’s approval ratings were down to 36% with 60% disaproving of his job performance.
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As stated in the listed “John McCain” link in the entry:
“‘We go to war because of our national security interests — we don’t go to war to start democracy in another country,’ said [Reb. John] Murtha, [D-Pa.], who predicted that the cumulative Iraq war spending may top $425 billion early next year.”
I wonder who we’ll invade next…hmmmm…who else has oil and needs our “help”… It’s disgusting: the many lives lost, the enormous debt, foreign relations destroyed, the ridiculous amount of corruption in the administration and fattening pockets of those who are tied to gov. contractors. I feel sorry for the next president and administration; they’ll have a lot to clean up. The current folks in charge just seem to make it worse.