Inside Story - Confessions of guilt? - December 3, 2008 - part 1

President George W. Bush admitted in an interview with US network ABC on Monday that "The biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq."

The intelligence failure he was referring to was the faulty evidence that accused Saddam Hussein's regime of possessing weapons of mass destruction, an accusation that was used as the official reason for the US administration's invasion of Iraq back in 2003.

The admission comes a bit late: the invasion left more than half a million Iraqis killed and over 4000 American soldiers. And he spend $40 billion on home land security. But President Bush says he will leave the presidency with his head held high.

In the interview he talked about the highs and lows of his eight years in office.
And he acknowledged what the rest of the world already has taken for granted for quite some time: That he may have been unprepared for what happened under his rule.

In this edition of Inside Story we ask if Bush's statements reflect any feelings of guilt and if he can be held accountable for launching a war under a false pretext?

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[zizoubilly]

"There are no Iraqis only Sunni and Shia"

WRONG!!!!

We are MUSLIMS-SIMPLE

[Irtidad]

Nor should they. Bush is a war criminal.

[syedflash]

you guys don't talk about democracy.. you went to war alone while everybody didn;t want a war..

sadam killed thousands...

Bush killed millions..

your arrogance may teach you lesson soon

[syedflash]

bush is the terrorist of all terrorists confesses only after killing half a million iraqis with shock and awe and phosphorous bombs,,,and his country;s own soldiers.

he has no value for the lives of humans..he wants to repeat the crusades..

[deisel1967]

Someone should do the world a favour & beat the living shit out of that arrogant, smug bastard Jack Burkman & then give him a one way ticket to Baghdad. Fuckind asshole.

[FlamingPope]

Stand alive, on 2 feet against the world, even with such large surmount of dept. The US is still kicking

[FlamingPope]

You can not hold the president responsible, ever. 'We the people' (couldn't help myself hehehe). We're the ones to blame, everyone that voted or did not vote. The only ones not able to blame are the abandoned children who do not influence eligible voters.

Who gave Hitler his power? It was his followers, not him, but the people who helped raise him up high.

But hell, as long as the US still stands alive, he was decent.

[c141bstarlifter]

This Jack Burkman is so full if SH*&

[annarboriter]

Such highpriced sophistry would be funny if so many people didn't have to die for the punchline.

[ballaamir]

WOW... This Jack Burkman character really thinks he has it figured out eh?!?!?.... well then why has there been 5+ bombings these past few days alone? How about the 2 US soliders lost? Why don't you have balls then and pull out NOW and lets see if things are as good as you think?? Fucking idiot & fool!!!

[jerkinp]

The evidence not to go to war was there. There was no WMD's and there was no link to Binladen. It's just that the Bush Administration choose to cherry pick the evidence excluding everything that was against the war and classifying it so people could not demand to see the evidence. I find it funny when American's use democracy as defence for the invasion and occupation. Like the U.S. cares about democracy when they destroyed Iran's democracy in 1953 for oil.