I think that’s a good thing of Bush to have said. I’ve always got the impression that Bush and Blair honestly believed in the threat, and that there was a lot of pushing from some quarters, which excuses Bush more than Blair. I don’t think anyone in this country, including the intelligence community or the rest of Blair’s Cabinet, believed in the threat.
And I also like the fact that he resisted a formal pull out timetable for so long, once we were in the right thing was always to stay until the “right time” to go (That’s a very subjective term, and I don’t believe it ties into a “win”, which in this situation I believe is a simplistic and frankly childish term).
There is a lot I would have liked to have seen Bush do differently, I am not a fan, but I think that statement does him plenty of credit.
