I just saw Bush making a speech in PA on CNN.

He said that knowing what he knows now about Iraq, he would still have done the same thing, and gone to war.

So he is admitting that even if he knew there were no WMD's, even if he knew there was no link between Hussein and Iraq, and Al-Queda, or 9-11, he would still have launched a first strike, and started a war with a sovereign nation which presented no imminent threat and had made no act of war against us or anyone else. With no provocation. With no "just cause". Just because.

(I guess he just got lucky and had all those other convenient excuses to use to sell the rest of us on this. Without the intel on WMD's or the false allegations about links to Al-Queda and 9-11, how many in Congress would have given him that declaration of authorization to use force? And what would the U.N. reaction had been? And what would public opinion have been?)

He apparently feels that we are somehow empowered(divinely?) to go around launching first strikes, invading sovereign countries, and starting wars, absent any imminent threat, absent any provocation, absent any "just cause". Just because they don't like us, or we don't like them. Who's he gonna want to invade next, France and Germany, because they wouldn't help us in Iraq?

He just admitted that he didn't need all those other factors, that he would still have wanted to go to war in Iraq. Would that have flown in Congress, or the U.N., or with the American people? Would we have supported him without all that propaganda? Are we now assuming a posture where the end justifies the means?

And this just makes me even more suspicious than I already was, if that's even possible, that he manipulated and tainted that intel just to make his case, and give him an excuse to go do something he wanted to do before he was ever elected.

Is this a man that we can trust for four more years as Commander-in-Chief of the largest, most powerful military force in the history of the world? Is this a man we can trust to make us SAFER?!? Is that how we make ourselves SAFER?!? By going to war with anyone we, no, HE, feels like, without a just cause? That is not a recipe for WORLD PEACE, that is a recipe for WORLD WAR, and DISASTER, and ARMAGEDDON!!

Everyone who is cheering him at his rallies is so caught up in the moment that they are only looking at where we are, and are forgetting how he got us here, or that he would do the same thing again; go to war with no just cause.

Has everyone gone blind and deaf?