In case anyone still thinks Iraq was involved in 9/11.

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Even when he's correcting himself Bush is still telling lies. "Nobody in this administration ever SUGGESTED that the attacks of September 11th were ordered by Iraq." My goodness, Bush must not listen to Dick Cheney very much. I wonder why Bush thinks such a large portion of the American population came to believe that Iraq was behind 9/11 - in fact I think there are still a few people hiding under rocks with their ears plugs saying "LALALALALA" over and over that still believe it. I've come to believe that this guy is simply unable to level with the American public about anything. What a waste of carbon Bush is.

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A pleasant surprise.  Refreshing to see him admit the mistake.  Still, he's making the case for pre-emption (aka, the "Bush Doctrine") even in light of the problems we're having in Iraq.  Ever intransigent.

I'm not sure I'd define having to wait 5 years to get a remotely straight anwser from the President of the United States, while he continue to spout BS regarding his administration misleading the public, pleasant - but to each their own.

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Bush mean't that while Iraq had nothing to do directly with 9/11...it was a country that was led by a terrorizing dictator in the post-9/11 world that had to be freed.

Iraq was lead by dictator Saddam Hussein. _President Clinton did not go in, not even after the first WTC attack. By 2001, the new President Bush gave orders to get him out of power since he and Osama had ties. And we did it in less than a year, "We Got Him."

I wonder how it was that you came to be under the mistaken impression that "he and Osama had ties"? You seem to have made a fairly radical change to your view about why we invaded Iraq, and it seems to be remarkably in line with the shifting reasons given by the Bush administration. Why do you think that is?

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Bush mean't that while Iraq had nothing to do directly with 9/11...it was a country that was led by a terrorizing dictator in the post-9/11 world that had to be freed.

Iraq was lead by dictator Saddam Hussein. _President Clinton did not go in, not even after the first WTC attack. By 2001, the new President Bush gave orders to get him out of power since he and Osama had ties. And we did it in less than a year, "We Got Him."

I wonder how it was that you came to be under the mistaken impression that "he and Osama had ties"? You seem to have made a fairly radical change to your view about why we invaded Iraq, and it seems to be remarkably in line with the shifting reasons given by the Bush administration. Why do you think that is?

It really is fascinating, in a way, to observe individuals whose brain is basically directly wired to their political figures of choice, such that what they say is not their own independently formed thoughts, but simply what they have heard from those political figures.

Unfortunately, Buckeye Mike is hardly an isolated case of this. The Bush administrations support, as diminished as it is, is largely built upon people like this at this point - people that want to believe something so much that they are willing to push reality to one side. There has been a very slow awakening in this country to the reality (or at least small pieces of reality) of how Bush and his allies have manipulated the American people. The 20 some % that still support Bush, I am convinced, almost entirely fall into the same category of lacking the ability to form independent thoughts and having no understanding of how their own opinions have been formed - and they reinforce one anothers failed understanding of reality. Partisan blindness gone wild.