Rationalizing War

...Security is the essential roadblock to achieving the road map to peace. GWB 7/25/03

Uncovering the Rationales for the War on Iraq was up on MetaFilter a couple of weeks ago. I thought it was worthwhile posting again here along with a choice quote from our fearless leader.

Quote via Slate.com: The Complete Bushisms.

[Update: The instant poll on Excite and iWon today was about Bush and his sagging.......approval ratings. iWon goes a step beyond Excite and asks two follow up questions. Forty-two percent of respondents approve of Bush's performance and 41% plan on voting for Bush and, likely, the same 41% think Bush will win the next election. Thirty-five percent plan to vote for Kerry and 16% weren't sure andonly 29% expect John Kerry to win the next election. Twenty-eight percent don't know who's going to win and 1% didn't care. For a guy with an approval rating chart like a dying bird's flight, Bush seems to be holding his own on the election front. Despite repeated podiatric to oral insertions and refusal to acknowledge that Donny Rumsfeld dropped the ball in a huge, huge way on the Iraqi POW torture debacle.]