The San Francisco Chronicle has a good roundup of the endless stream of flip-flops from Bush. Here’s one:

Prior to the March 2003 invasion of Iraq, Bush focused on weapons of mass destruction and stated the U.S. goal in straightforward terms.

“Should we have to go in, our mission is very clear: disarmament. And in order to disarm, it would mean regime change,” Bush said at a news conference two weeks before he took the nation to war.

“And our mission won’t change,” Bush continued. “Our mission is precisely what I just stated.”

Six weeks later, speaking to workers at an Army tank plant in Ohio, the goal seemed to expand.

“Our mission — besides removing the regime that threatened us, besides ending a place where the terrorists could find a friend, besides getting rid of weapons of mass destruction — our mission has been to bring humanitarian aid and restore basic services and put this country, Iraq, on the road to self- government.”

Last month, speaking to supporters at a campaign event in Wisconsin, Bush put it more plainly: “The goal in Iraq and Afghanistan is for there to be democratic and free countries who are allies in the war on terror. That’s the goal.”

Oh that’s the goal… okay. I wonder for how long?

By the way, here’s the key flip-flop:

In the fall of 2002, as Bush sought congressional support for the use of force, he described the vote as a sign of solidarity that would strengthen his ability to keep the peace. Today, his aides describe it unambiguously as a vote to go to war.

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