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The War Party sometimes says what it's thinking. Letting the truth slip out, is not a "messaging problem".

I expect at least 3 new fronts being opened by next GOP President, if they work hard maybe an American Uncivil War.

Well, so what is the stance the righties like here? The war was good? The war was built on faulty intelligence, and is therefore a colossal mistake? Why do they still have any bona fides with their voters?

Which stance disqualifies a GOP candidate to the converatards?

Most troubling is the continual re-writing of history, that is, faulty intelligence. Of course Jebster continues the cover-up.

O'Neill: Bush planned Iraq invasion before 9/11

The Bush administration began planning to use U.S. troops to invade Iraq within days after the former Texas governor entered the White House three years ago, former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill told CBS News' 60 Minutes.

"From the very beginning, there was a conviction that Saddam Hussein was a bad person and that he needed to go," O'Neill told CBS, according to excerpts released Saturday by the network. "For me, the notion of pre-emption, that the U.S. has the unilateral right to do whatever we decide to do, is a really huge leap."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/ALLPOLITICS/01/10/oneill.bush/

And let's not forget the Downing Street Memo. Or let's just pretend it was bad intelligence, and that the intentions were honorable.

"There is now in the public record a large body of evidence that vividly illustrates:
-Bush’s long-standing intent to invade Iraq
-Bush’s willingness to provoke Saddam (in a variety of ways) into providing a pretext for war
-The fact that the war effectively began with an air campaign nearly a year before the March 2003 invasion and months before Congressional approval for the use of force
-The administration’s widespread effort to crush dissent and manipulate information that would counter its justification for war
-The lack of planning for the war’s aftermath and a fundamental lack of understanding of the Iraqi society"

http://downingstreetmemo.com

"The "Downing Street memo" (or the "Downing Street Minutes"), sometimes described by critics of the Iraq War as the "smoking gun memo", is the note of a secret 23 July 2002 meeting of senior British Labour government, defence and intelligence figures discussing the build-up to the war, which included direct reference to classified United States policy of the time. The name refers to 10 Downing Street, the residence of the British prime minister.

The memo recorded the head of the Secret Intelligence Service (MI6) as expressing the view following his recent visit to Washington that "[George W.] Bush wanted to remove Saddam Hussein, through military action, justified by the conjunction of terrorism and WMD. But the intelligence and facts were being fixed around the policy."

It quoted Foreign Secretary Jack Straw as saying it was clear that Bush had "made up his mind" to take military action but that "the case was thin."

Straw also noted that Iraq retained "WMD capability" and that "Saddam would continue to play hard-ball with the UN."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Downing_Street_memo