Originally published February 16 2006
Bush defends decision to go to war
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor
President George W. Bush showed no signs of admitting to troubles or the insecurity of the situation in Iraq, despite an admission that faulty intelligence did factor into the decision.
President Bush accepted responsibility on Wednesday for going to war with faulty intelligence, but firmly defended a decision that has deeply divided the country.
The president said that Thursday's parliamentary elections in Iraq are a watershed moment that will inspire democracy across the Middle East.
But with public opinion still running against his mission, Bush was again left defending his decision to go to war nearly three years ago.
As president I am responsible for the decision to go into Iraq," the president told a foreign policy forum on the eve of elections to establish Iraq's first permanent, democratically elected government.
Saddam was a threat and the American people and the world is better off because he is no longer in power," the president told the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars.
As he usually does, Bush asserted that the Iraq of the future, with a functioning democracy and thriving economy, would be a model for other nations in the turbulent Middle East.
The Nevada Democrat said judging by the last three Iraq speeches, the president "is still not focused on what needs to be done in convincing the American people and showing the American people what his plan is in Iraq."
... The Iraqis must make the political concessions to each other to share power, to share oil resources, if there's going to be the political unity which is essential to defeat the insurgency.
Answering critics who have said he had offered no clear definition of victory in Iraq, Bush offered a succinct summation.
"These objectives, not timetables set by politicians in Washington, will drive our force levels in Iraq."
Bush got a more better reaction from a group of House Democrats that he hosted for a briefing on Iraq before the speech, who emerged complimentary of the president's strategy and his recent doses of candor about the situation there.
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