I see you understand full well how he'll respond. He has nothing else.
Facts mean nothing to some freepers and their desire to undermine the Bush presidency is so obvious that I often wonder who is paying them because surely there is no reason to come here without a paycheck as their ideology is so far removed from conservatism.
I don't believe that condemning Mr. Bush's invasion and occupation of Iraq is removed from conservatism at all.
The bottom line is that Mr. Bush sold the war as a necessary means to eliminate the threat that Saddam Hussein's possession of WMD's posed to the U.S. But as we have seen, there were no WMD's, no mobile biological labs, no drones, absolutely nothing that we were told turned out to be the truth. Of course, Mr. Bush, having doubts of his own also brought up the brutality of Saddam's regime and the miracle of democracy as if channeling Woodrow Wilson was some kind of conservative virtue.
Mr. Bush has violated Russell Kirk's sixth canon of conservative principles: "Recognition that change may not be salutary reform: hasty innovation may be a devouring conflagration, rather than a torch of progress. Society must alter, for prudent change is the means of social preservation; but a statesman must take Providence into his calculations, and a statesman's chief virtue, according to Plato and Burke, is prudence."
.Conservatives are realists. Conservatives are historians and conservatives predicted the budding civil war, the quagmire that would befall our military, and the seedbed for terrorism that would become Iraq following Mr. Bush's invasion. Conservatives are not cheerleaders for a political party and a leader who woefully lacks the prudence necessary to be a conservative statesman, nor grows the breadth and reach of the government while spending like a drunken sailor on shore leave.