First Cheney, Now Bush

Cheney's had his say. Now it's Bush's turn.

"Based on all the information we have to date," Mr. Bush said at the White House, "I believe we were right to take action, and America is safer today with Saddam Hussein in prison. He retained the knowledge, the materials, the means and the intent to produce weapons of mass destruction, and he could have passed that knowledge on to our terrorist enemies."

You would think that this last nail in the coffin of the rationale for war would give the President pause, but nothing's going to stop him from repeating the same old tired assertions about the war. No nuclear program? Still should've gone to war. No WMDs? Still should've gone to war. No threat to the US? Doesn't matter...still should've gone to war. This isn't a surprise of course. The Bush team have a winning plan-just keep saying the same things over and over again because someone's bound to believe it no matter all evidence to the contrary-and they're sticking to it.

Kerry and Edward's comments are worth quoting also.

Such steadfastness, the Democratic presidential nominee, Senator John Kerry, said, effectively rendered Mr. Bush and Mr. Cheney "the last two people on the planet" who believed that the original rationale for war was right.

(I disagree with Kerry on this; I think that actually Bush is the very last person on the planet who still believes in the original rationale.)

Mr. Kerry's running mate, Senator John Edwards, also had something to say about the latest comments from the White House. "They are willing to say left is wrong and up is down," Mr. Edwards said in Bayonne, N.J., according to The A.P. "The vice president, Dick Cheney, and the president need to recognize that the Earth is actually round and that the Sun is rising in the east."

Indeed Senator.