Iraq war my biggest regret, Bush admits
George Bush, in a moment of reflection ahead of his departure from the White House, last night(01dec08) admitted that the decision to go to war against Saddam Hussein on the basis of flawed intelligence was the biggest regret of his presidency. The acknowledgment marks the first time that Bush has publicly expressed doubts about his rationale for going to war on Iraq.
In the run-up to the war, the White House adopted a position of absolute certainty that Saddam had weapons of mass destruction, basing its arguments on intelligence that was later exposed as flimsy and wrong.
"The biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq," Bush told ABC television in an interview scheduled for broadcast last night(01dec08). "I wish the intelligence had been different, I guess." But he followed that moment of candour with an attempt to try to deflect charges that the White House misled Congress and the public to build a case for war, arguing that there had been widespread belief that Saddam had a nuclear arsenal.
"It wasn't just people in my administration; a lot of members in Congress, prior to my arrival in Washington DC, during the debate on Iraq, a lot of leaders of nations around the world, were all looking at the same intelligence."
He is still lying.
No, Bush is wrong.he have to say this after his death.(?)it was not flimsy intelligence, it was deliberatly use of Bush and his pupet B-lier just to murder Iraqies.(by israel).now bring these murderers in front of law(is there any?)hang them same as Saddam,.I am sure Americans adn Britishers(Many of them) will agree with me.
awkhan