To correct your otherwise excellent article, Bush actually did campaign by specifically stating that he would be able to keep the country safe and prevent attacks. As a matter of fact, last night "The Daily Show" displayed footage of Bush saying those exact words. He is either highly delusional or a pathological liar or, perhaps, both.

I will never forgive Nancy Pelosi for her statement when she became Speaker not to pursue impeachment of this lame excuse for a President. It's bad enough he was elected in the first place but how did he get elected the second time...if ever there was a President deserving impeachment it was "W". In fact, not only impeachment, but he and his triad of evil should also be brought up on war crimes. They used to call Reagan the Teflon President, news flash, we have a new winner. How is it that NOTHING sticks to this man...under his eight years of rule, our country has fallen into total disrepair, heading for rack and ruin, he has taken(lied)us into war (needlessly) and thrown our economy into the biggest downturn second only to the Great Depression...along the way, flipping the bird at the Constitution and all it stands for...and to top it off he is totally unrepentant (how do we teach our children to take responsibility for their actions when the POTUS is the supreme role model for irresponsibility)...what exactly does it take...if only he had bopped an intern in the Oval Office.

Good work, Joan.

I get the impression from Bush that his regrets really just pertain to what his actions have done to his "legacy" as president. It's difficult to know another person's heart, but I think it is clear that even in his public regrets, Bush is trying to protect his image of himself for himself. He's fragile.

Now he'd rather the intelligence had supported his actions instead of wishing he'd not taken those actions.

Bush must live with what he's done, but so must the families of those who have died and been maimed to serve the purposes of the administration/neocon agenda. This country and the world also must live with all the wrong that has been done in the last eight years and the repercussions it will have for a very long time.

So, too must Congress live with its abdication of its constitutional responsibility to declare war. That is the issue. The doctored intelligence funneled through Cheney's office was the means to scare Congress into blinking and giving up its duty. So much for checks and balances.

My hope is that even if Bush never understands what he did, Congress and we the rest of the people will be reflective and thoughtful and see what's what so we can learn from it. I believe the election of Obama is a step in that direction.

I blame Democrats MORE really, for still not shoving this creep AND his fellow criminals in JAIL or worse.

The Republicans had an excuse when they did what they did-- they are into profit at the EXPENSE of the nation.

What excuse did the Democrats have? when they have positioned themselves as the ONLY significant opposition and are charged with acting to balance power in Washington and act as the servants of our collective will.

Basically, this means Democrats AGREED with Bush, which makes BOTH parties evil and no accountability, transparency, or responsibility in government.

A GREAT THING when we run the planet and need to prove ourselves now or else be the cause of a global depression. IT IS ON YOUR HEADS, PEOPLE. I barked enough these past eight years.

" I'm not sure how anyone could run for president and be "unprepared" for war."

History records that FDR was unprepared for war. The man-child entering the White House next month is certainly unprepared for, among other things, war.

"What a cowardly, buck-passing answer. It was his administration that was responsible for the faulty intelligence."

Wrong. As both Hillary Clinton and John Edwards have admitted, the intelligence regarding Iraq's WMD was consistent from Clinton to Bush. Horseface is simply lying when she claims that the Bush administration manufactured the intelligence.

"The intelligence from Bush 1 to Clinton to Bush 2 was consistent."

- Hillary Clinton, September 24, 2003

"The consensus was the same, from the Clinton administration to the Bush administration. It was the same intelligence belief that our allies and friends around the world shared." - Hillary Clinton, April 21, 2004

"Because what happened was the information that we got on the intelligence committee was, was relatively consistent with what I was getting from former Clinton administration officials." - John Ed-wards, February 4, 2007

Now, Clinton and Edwards are not exactly paragons of truthfulness. Therefore, I advise Horseface and her fellow moonbats to read the actual press releases from the Clinton administration:

http://www.sinsofthehusband.com/iraqthreat.html

"But it was the Bush administration that changed the tone."

This is BS and Horseface knows it. The Democrats started changing the tone on May 16, 2002. That's the day Hillary Clinton stood on the floor of the Senate with the copy of the New York Post that proclaimed, "Bush Knew." From that day forward, the Democrats made the war on terror a partisan issue.

http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9C01E5DD1738F93BA25756C0A9649C8B63

"Had we had a few months more [of inspections before the war], we would have been able to tell both the CIA and others that there were no weapons of mass destruction [at] all the sites that they had given to us," Blix told the Associated Press in 2004.

This is historical revisionism. First, Hans Blix himself lamented the fact that the Iraqis were not cooperating with the inspectors prior to the invasion and that Saddam refused to met with the inspectors.

http://www.fareedzakaria.com/articles/nyt/nytreview041104.html

Second, we had inspectors on the ground in Iraq between 1991 and 1998 and they left believing Saddam still had WMD. (Note to Horseface: "WMDs" is redundant since the "s" is part of the "W.") If inspectors were uncertain about Saddam’s WMD programs after being in Iraq for seven years, does anyone seriously believe Hans Blix and his team could have found out the truth after just a couple of months?

Lastly, Blix's statement ignores Tony Blair's recitation of the actual situation prior to the invasion. I invite Horseface and her fellow moonbats to read Blair's speech:

http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm200203/cmhansrd/vo030318/debtext/30318-06.htm

It is sad to see Bush Derangement Syndrome completely rot Horseface's reasoning skills.