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• We didn’t declare war on Iraq as part of a War on Terror.
• We didn’t declare war on Iraq because they were a threat to us.

We declared war on Iraq because a bunch of crackpots sat in a Think Tank or two in Washington and decided we needed to kick some ass in the Middle East. What we did was show our ass instead.

Rumsfeld: It’s "Nonsense" That Bush Is Backing Away From "Stay The Course"…

Faced with widespread disappoval of its Iraq policy, the Bush administration launched a coordinated effort this week to convince Americans it has never had a stay-the-course strategy in Iraq. On Sunday, President Bush said, "We’ve never been stay the course." White House Counselor Dan Bartlett disavowed the label again yesterday.

But in a radio interview today with Sean Hannity, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld confirmed that the Bush administration isn’t planning to shift its strategy. Rumsfeld called media reports about Bush’s reversal "nonsense," and said "of course" Bush is "not backing away from staying the course."