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How can this man claim the Iraq war was the biggest intelligence failure in his term? The biggest intelligence failure in his career was 9/11, which was preceded by an avalanche of intelligence he and his tragically incompetent "National Security Adviser," Condi Rice, chose to ignore. Who can forget her famously stupid, "who could have ever predicted this would happen?" comment? (Uh, CIA? FBI? Hollywood?!!) Bush and his team utterly refuse to recognize that 9/11 was preventable, and he will NEVER admit that a Gore presidency--which would have kept people like Al Qaeda expert Richard Clarke in place--likely would have stopped it.
This man is a master at self-deception and delusion, and likely the shallowest person ever to claim that office. I genuinely feel that he really cannot see his own mistakes. Throughout his life Bush has surrounded himself with sycophants whose incompetence is outstripped only by their partisan arrogance. We paid the price.
