'Bush: My Biggest Regret Was Failure Of Iraq Intelligence'

Of course, the intelligence Bush was getting was only what he and his handlers wanted to get. I think Seymour Hersch originally exposed this in The New Yorker (all about "stovepiping" the intelligence). We all knew it was going on (if we cared to delve into it). George Bush is such a sorry stupid ass.

This is from Greg Sargent here.

As if right on cue, Barack Obama's successful national security presser today, in which he declared that the "buck stops with me" and took full responsibility for his presidency's vision, is cast in an even more positive light by the deeply pathetic interview that his predecessor just gave to ABC News.

In the interview, which was conduced by Charlie Gibson, George W. Bush evades responsibility for his catastrophic foreign policies to the last, saying that his greatest regret was over something that he allegedly didn't control -- the intel failure in Iraq . . . .

Of course, Bush made the decision to overlook all the good intel -- not to mention the claims of those poor forgotten inspectors -- saying that Saddam wasn't really a threat at all, or certainly not one requiring the response Bush himself ordered. . . .

Bush's vengefulness (hardly "Christian") over Saddam's attempt to "kill my dad" was all that the neoconservatives in his administration needed to ram through the invasion of Iraq, while lying to the American people and the rest of the world about the reasons for doing so (viz. Colin Powell's phony presentation at the UN, which most likely will never redeem him, considering all the lives lost, all the injuries, and all the destruction to families, both here and in Iraq--not even by endorsing Obama). But the neoconservative ideology expressly allows for lying to the public, since the common people are presumed to be too ill informed to know what's in their best interest. This is about as un-American as you can get. (Our Constitution protects the freedom of the press expressly for the purpose of keeping the public informed.)

Actually, the minute Bush got into power (well before 9/11), the invasion of Iraq was already a done deal among these schemers. Bush was the perfect patsy for this bunch, whose main concern, it seems, is the security of Israel. I'm all for the security of Israel, but I think Israel would be more secure if the U.S. had a less antagonistic policy toward the Arab countries near it (but we love Saudi Arabia, don't we, which supplied most of the 9/11 terrorists and is the birthplace of Osama bin Laden). And invading Arab countries on false pretenses certainly doesn't enhance the security of Israel, in my mind. On the contrary. And certainly not for revenge on the part of a petty, shallow U.S. president who had no concept of the ramifications of his actions.