Bush Is Alone

Despite all his claims that “everyone agreed with him” at the time, which are lies, Bush is alone with no peers except perhaps Chalabi in what he believed and said about Iraq in 2002 and 2003, as Tom Oliphant points out in this column. A MUST READ

As for Kennedy, the White House ignored his position on the 2002 resolution, which included an endorsement of a UN resolution far tougher than the one Colin Powell negotiated in November 2002. One of the grand ”what ifs” of this period is whether Saddam could have survived a finding by a small army of weapons inspectors that one of his holds on power — the belief that he had unconventional weapons — was a complete fiction.