It's because he can't remember anything, period. Fucking sociopath.

The eerie thing about George W is that he has lived his life utterly free of consequences.

Never has W had to pick up a tab, clean up a mess, earn a dollar, answer for a mistake. Never has George W. Bush had to own up to his actions.

George W is incapable of admitting to owning any portion of an error. Can't do it.

W botched the simple punch line of the "fool me once" aphorism because he is incapable of uttering the phrase "shame on me."

Bush ? Intelligence Failure ? I don't see what's the problem here...

A fucking nitwit.

Have people really forgotten? Bush was talking invasion and everyone thought it was going to happen in some months, and then the inspectors were coming up empty-handed and Saddam was cooperating. So CooCoo ran his plans up and invaded sooner than he'd been saying and that was why. They were showing that the rationale did not exist. Does he think no one remembers this? I sure as hell do.

I also recall Saddam saying that Bush was going to invade regardless and Saddam was right. But then, he knew these people. He'd worked for us in Egypt before they helped him get control of Iraq.

It wasn't just people in my administration; a lot of members in Congress, prior to my arrival in Washington D.C., during the debate on Iraq, a lot of leaders of nations around the world were all looking at the same intelligence.

Yet not every country or politician was in favor of war.

Remember how Bush reveled in the war before it became unpopular? Remember the dinner when he pretended to be looking for WMD and joked about not finding any? Remember the flight suit and the "Mission Accomplisnhed" sign? Remember the rah rah speeches he gave? Remember the journalists who fawmed all over him?

Bush milked this war for all it was worth adn now he regrets bad intelligence.

When Bush says Congress and others saw the same intelligence he did, he's lying, because he hid intel that argued against his plans.

No member of the traditional/MSM should be allowed to interview Bush because none of them will do what's needed.

The very idea that we have to consider the competency of a President, any President, is just unreal.

No member of the traditional/MSM should be allowed to interview Bush because none of them will do what's needed.

The media are the administration's unindicted co-conspirators, so to speak. They know they're culpable. And they won't ask the right questions - they're afraid to. IMO.

that the self-described role of "war president" wasn't one Bush was all that adverse to adopting.

Anyone who was paying attention knows that he expressly wanted to be a 'war president.' He said so in the biography that was released before he even ran, the title of which I can't recall. I do remember the author talking about it - Bush said in that book both that he wanted to be a 'war president' and I believe that is also where the infamous "We need a Pearl Harbor" quote came from.

So your understatement is understating even Bush himself, Greg.

"I guess"

"I wish the intelligence had been DIFFERENT"

That's an interesting choice of words there. Not "better" intelligence, but "different" intelligence -- the kind that supported the invasion he wanted.

His biggest regret??????????

What about the MILLIONS OF DEAD PEOPLE?!?

Bush deserves no peace, no consideration, no rest, no honor. Never. Not one bit.

http://3bluedudes.com/george-w-bush/a-retort-to-president-george-w-bush/

Here is my retort. Two things are striking. His refusal to take ANY, not even a little bit, but ANY accountability for everything that has gone wrong, and second, he continues to simply lie.

He may be the only person on the planet who can convince himself that its a bright sunny and clear day while he's standing in a monsoon.

I guess Uncle Dick never explained to him that part about the intelligence being "fixed around the policy."

There was no intelligence failure...it did exactly what it was written for....start a war.

Biggest regret? no mention of the August '01 CIA briefing? millions dead in Iraq? Faster response to Katrina?

What an ass.

It’s obvious in retrospect that Bush (and the whole administration) was unprepared for war. It’s just to bad that his Daddy complex made him insist on waging one anyway.

Of all the crimes this administration has committed (and there are plenty to pick from), one of the worst was sending our young men and women into combat in an unnecessary war with inadequate personal and vehicular armor.

Not having a plan for after the Iraqi military was defeated is right up there too. The loss of priceless artifacts, though not of the level of letting people get killed, is something that will be forever remembered about Bush.

Don't give this guy more credit than he deserves. He is hardly cunning or a mastermind. Cheney is cunning. Bush is a twit. I have no doubt that he thought the Presidency was going to be a breeze, and he was going to take the world by storm because he wasn't your typical poindexter politician who did things by the book, like Pops or Jimmy Carter or one of those UN nerds.

There's nothing more to it than that. Bush was in over his head. He couldn't lead because his grasp of issues, policies and processes was shallow. Because there was no one at the helm to communicate the overarching vision, or who had a command of policy, the cunning little maggots who'd infested his administration were allowed free reign.

So all the signs of wanton incompetence really signify just that: wanton incompetence. I mean, really, is there anything at all in his history of business failures that indicates he's anything more than a functional moron?

I hope that he will be called out on this grossly misleading statement about an "intelligence failure." It's been widely documented that the intelligence community did not fail in the sense of being left to do its job and coming up with poor or misleading information. Instead, they were pressured to come up with intelligence that fit Bush's and Cheney's *choice* to go to war. I wish more journalists and politicians had the spine to come out and say so and that Bush and Cheney would actually be held accountable.