Bush admits Iraq sanctions were working

I'd much rather have a guy who changes his mind when the facts render it necessary than a self-rigtheous guy with a Messiah Complex who never changes his mind even in the face of a reality so undeniable to everyone else. Even so, it's clear the president is a flip flopper; he just doesn't have the grace to admit he messed up.

For example, it's now clear, even by the president's own logic, that weapons' inspections in Saddam's Iraq were working.

Before the invasion, President Bush spoke of how Saddam HAD weapons of mass destruction.

Yesterday, he flip flopped. The president spoke of Saddam's "intent and capability to develop weapons."

He also mentioned Saddam's "intent of restarting his weapons program, once the world looked away."

Yet. if Saddam had his weapons program on hold, as the president suggests, then it means sanctions and inspections were working.

First Saddam had WMDs, then he might possibly have sought them. First he was a threat, then he possibly would have eventually become a threat. Bush needs to stop his ex post facto flip flops and just admit he was wrong.

It means that we invaded a country who had no WMDs (according to Bush's own chief weapons inspector) and had no apparent links to al-Qaeda (according to Bush's own secretary of war).

In other words, we invaded a country that clearly was no threat to the United States or its allies.

But you already knew that.