Sean Hackbarth calls it “the biggest intelligence failure in U.S. history.” I’d like to add that many more people were fooled; there was generally agreement that something unwholesome was afoot with regard to Iraqi weapons programs. There has been speculation that it was the French who planted the information that led to this conclusion; I don’t quite believe this, but it’s plausible. However, that’s neither here nor there.

Sean ultimately concludes that based on intelligence and the events of 9/11, he would have gone to war, too. “I can’t fault him for something I would have done.”

Well, I could, if I believed the “Bush lied” propaganda. But I don’t, and I don’t. That, I think, is where the real decision needs to be made: either Bush and his Republican lackeys are unnaturally skillful liars, or you accept that the man did the best job he could with the information he had available.