Bush's admissions against interest.

"I remember the day we committed the troops, or I committed the troops, there's no 'we' to it," commented President Bush during a December 14 interview with Brian Williams of NBC News. "I committed the troops to combat in Iraq. And I left here [the Oval Office], walked out that door, walked around that South Lawn there with my trusty dog Spot, just thinking about the consequences."

In his effort to create an "uneasy lies the head that bears the crown" moment, Mr. Bush inadvertently delivered the definitive indictment of the foolish, unjust, needless, unconstitutional war in Iraq: there is, to use his eminently quotable phrase, "no 'we' to it." This is an admission that the American people, acting through Congress, did not commit our nation to a war against Iraq.

In a major address to the Woodrow Wilson Center later the same day, Mr. Bush even admitted that his decision was based on unreliable intelligence--even though he also insisted that his decision was somehow the right one to make.

"It is true that much of the intelligence [about Saddam] turned out to be wrong," stated Mr. Bush, years after that fact had become obvious to all but the president's most chauvinistic supporters. "And I'm also responsible for fixing what went wrong by reforming our intelligence capabilities. And we're doing just that." The problem is that from Mr. Bush's point of view, nothing of any consequence went wrong, since invading Iraq was the right thing to do in any case: "We are in Iraq today because our goal has always been the removal of a brutal dictator. It is to leave a free and democratic Iraq in his place.... My decision to remove Saddam Hussein was the right decision. Saddam was a threat and the American people and the world is [sic] better off because he is no longer in power."