For much of the Bush/Cheney era, as conditions in Iraq deteriorated, then-President George W. Bush had some standard rhetorical lines. It wasn’t unusual, for example, to hear the beleaguered Republican president say something like, “Some people say an Iraqi democracy is a bad idea. I disagree.”

It always seemed like a straw-man argument, but as it turns out, perhaps Bush was referring to members of his own national security team. MSNBC’s Amanda Sakuma reported today:...

Hmm. It’s been 12 years since Bush, Cheney, and Rumsfeld launched their disastrous war. It’s been nine years Rumsfeld gave the nation a reprieve and walked away from the Defense Department post.

He’s only now getting around to saying – out loud – that he’s always been “concerned” by Bush’s stated rationale for the catastrophic conflict?