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All these years later, and he is STILL running with the "If only there was any slightest shred of evidence to the contrary" angle. I knew there were no WMDs, and I didn't have the benefit of a single presidential briefing, yet Bush still insists he was the victim of faulty intelligence.
When I heard Bush on the news last night, and I understood why he was president for 8 years. He's the perfect president for America. He's a giant self-powered inertia machine. He can't be moved, just like America can't be moved. Even now, far too many people think our problems in Iraq stem only from "implementation." But it is exactly Bush's brand of blind arrogance that Americans see as central to our national identity.
Have things changed under Obama? Have we learned any lessons at all. I can't say that I believe that at all. The Bush interview was instructive. As a nation, he is what we see when we look in the mirror.
