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Wednesday, December 3, 2008 12:00 AM

The buck stops where?

Our delusional president laments the "intelligence failure" that identified nonexistent WMD in Iraq and admits he was "unprepared" for war.

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  • Wednesday, December 3, 2008 06:04 PM

    Well...

    10 years of refusing to comply with UN weapons inspections was reason enough for me to remove Saddam.

    He obviously had possessed WMDs, and was willing to use them. Whether he still had them, I think, was and remains a moot point. Without assurance of their destruction he could reasonably be assumed to still possess them and pose a serious risk to the region and the world.

    I hold Clinton responsible for not smoking his ass long before Cheney and Rumsfeld et al. got the chance to use W as their dummy.

    Let's face it, W is the short, stubby, dull broken crayon of Harvard Business School. He hasn't the brains to organize a game of hopscotch.

    As president, he seems to have been best at following directions.

    I can only hope that soon those directions will include cleaning his cell for the remainder of his natural life.

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