Reply #3: I see the "Bush, lonely man at the top" sympathy, but its crap

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Fact is, Bush was told exactly how to avoid his Iraq debacle. I told him. The State department told him. Millions told him. Let the inspectors do their job, because they will either find WMD and we will have an international coalition, or they won't, in which case we won't have a war with a doubtlessly costly occupation.

All Bush had to do was make the right choice, and he would have been a fucking hero at home and abroad. Maybe someone would have criticized him, but he could have told them to bug off as he shows how strength plus restraint for a specific strategy pays off huge.

But he is predestined to choose the wrong strategy at each and every opportunity. Dick.