He should be seeing ghosts. It is called karma.

"I do a lot of crying in this job."

Good lord, he really is turning into Truman Capote.

Like W said "F*ck Saddam. We're taking him out." This was in the spring of '02, yet Bush stated publicly for another year that he hadn't decided and that it was up to Saddam to prevent our invasion by complying with certain demands.

Bush also sounded like the spoiled little brat he's always been when he responded to Robert Draper's question about how the Iraqi army got disbanded. Excerpt:

Mr. Bush acknowledged one major failing of the early occupation of Iraq when he said of disbanding the Saddam Hussein-era military, "The policy was to keep the army intact; didn't happen."

But when Mr. Draper pointed out that Mr. Bush's former Iraq administrator, L. Paul Bremer III, had gone ahead and forced the army's dissolution and then asked Mr. Bush how he reacted to that, Mr. Bush said, "Yeah, I can't remember, I'm sure I said, 'This is the policy, what happened?' " But, he added, "Again, Hadley's got notes on all of this stuff," referring to Stephen J. Hadley, his national security adviser.

Bremer has had to correct W's account:

Bremer released a letter he'd written to the president about the plans to disband the army that included Bush's reply: "You have my full support and confidence."

Three more big ones come quickly to mind: Claiming Rumsfeld was still solidly on board after he knew Rummy's resignation would be announced after the '06 election, which he admitted was done to keep the news from influencing the election.

Then there was his claim about Katrina that no one ever dreamed the levees might be breached, until the pre-tragedy video was released showing Brownie warning him exactly of that.

Also, the speech to Americans he gave before we learned there were wiretaps without going through the FISA courts (my added emphasis):

...Now, by the way, any time you hear the United States government talking about wiretap, it requires -- a wiretap requires a court order. Nothing has changed, by the way. When we're talking about chasing down terrorists, we're talking about getting a court order before we do so. It's important for our fellow citizens to understand, when you think Patriot Act, constitutional guarantees are in place when it comes to doing what is necessary to protect our homeland, because we value the Constitution.

But "some" keep saying he's never lied to the American people.

(or speak it) if it walked up and planted a foot firmly in his posterior.

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"You can't fix stupid..." ~ Ron White"
"I never said I wasn't a brat..." ~ Talidapali

I'm not sure that the upcoming election and the departure of Bush will end the Iraq venture. On the contrary, it seems to me that both Republican and Democratic major candidates have largely bought in to a long term military presence in Iraq specifically and the Middle East generally. If people are going to the polls voting for for one of the major candidates they may be disappointed when they find they have voted in something other than an end to the war. It will be a replay of the last congressional elections where we elected democrats and just got more war.

Remember that Bush also claimed later, as one excuse for invading, that Saddam kicked out our weapons inspectors, but Bush had actually recalled them himself? Priceless. (Well, at least >$500 billion plus 10's or 100's of thousands of lives lost and millions of injured and displaced...)