Won't Get Fooled Again.

...Except, of course, when we will.

Despite the policy being a failure (and morally abhorent), the President wants to reaffirm his belief in preemptive war.

Washington Post: Bush to Restate Terror Strategy-

2002 Doctrine of Preemptive War To Be Reaffirmed

President Bush plans to issue a new national security strategy today reaffirming his doctrine of preemptive war against terrorists and hostile states with chemical, biological or nuclear weapons, despite the troubled experience in Iraq...

I'll save any comments I might have for my later rant.

Meanwhile, FAIR (Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting) has put together a great page compiling numerous quotes from media pundits from the early days of the Iraq war, as they all declare victory and demand apologies from critics of the war. See the full link for the whole package, but here are a few of my favorites-

#1-

"We had controversial wars that divided the country. This war united the country and brought the military back."
(Newsweek's Howard Fineman--MSNBC, 5/7/03)

#2-

"The war was the hard part. The hard part was putting together a coalition, getting 300,000 troops over there and all their equipment and winning. And it gets easier. I mean, setting up a democracy is hard, but it is not as hard as winning a war."
(Fox News Channel's Fred Barnes, 4/10/03)

#3-

"We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or Mondale, all those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits."
(MSNBC's Chris Matthews, 5/1/03)

#4-

"Well, the hot story of the week is victory.... The Tommy Franks-Don Rumsfeld battle plan, war plan, worked brilliantly, a three-week war with mercifully few American deaths or Iraqi civilian deaths.... There is a lot of work yet to do, but all the naysayers have been humiliated so far.... The final word on this is, hooray."
(Fox News Channel's Morton Kondracke, 4/12/03)

Hooray indeed, Morton.

Do I still owe them that apology?