This Is Such A Crock

Bush claimed last week that he "wrestled" with his decision to invade Iraq:

President George W. Bush said on Friday that he wrestled for months over the decision to go to war in Iraq but that he remains convinced it was the right decision.

In the latest in a series of comments in which he has gone further than in the past to acknowledge heated debate over the war, Bush told PBS in an interview that he never tried to guess casualty numbers before the March 2003 invasion but said he understood the risks.

"I'll never forget making the decision in the Situation Room, and it affected me," he was quoted as saying in the transcript of the interview for "The News Hour with Jim Lehrer."

"I got up out of the chair and walked around the South Lawn there and I thought, you know, I knew the decision I had just made -- by the way, that I had been wrestling with for months -- was the right decision," Bush said.

Yeah, right. When I read the above-quoted load of crap, I was taken back to February of 2002 -- a full year before the beginning of the Iraq Debacle -- when Bush famously said, "F*ck Saddam -- we're taking him out." Indeed, the only thing he and his administration wrestled with for months is how best the Bush Regime could present this Iraq Lie to the American people. Paul Wolfowitz, in a rare display of BushCo truth-telling, filled us in on that whole process:

A couple of months after the 2003 attack on Iraq, Wolfowitz gave an amazing interview to Vanity Fair magazine in which he said: "The truth is that for reasons that have a lot to do with the U.S. government bureaucracy, we settled on the one issue that everyone could agree on, which was weapons of mass destruction as a core reason" to attack Iraq.

The press knows about those pre-war remarks concerning Bush's desire to "f*#k Saddam." Every time Bush comes forward with some bullshit line about how he got "bad intel" or how he labored over his decision regarding the Iraq Invasion, why isn't someone in the press corps responding with, "If that is so, Mr. President, how come TIME magazine quoted you a saying -- a full year before the invasion -- 'F*ck Saddam -- we're taking him out!'?"

I'd love to see that happen. But it never will.