Dangerous and Delusional

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From the John Edwards website:

Chapel Hill, North Carolina – Senator John Edwards released the following statement about President Bush's remarks today on the war in Iraq.
"The president's remarks today defending his Iraq policy without regard to actual facts border on the delusional. The president claimed that the same people attacking U.S. troops today are the ones who perpetrated 9/11. It must be nice to live in a world where your actions have no consequences. There was no group called Al Qaeda in Iraq before the president's disastrous mismanagement of the war gave them a foothold, a fact the president flagrantly ignores. After being discredited again and again, the president is still trying to link Iraq and 9/11 - a rationale for the war that virtually everyone except Dick Cheney has now recognized was false.
"The president needs to stop pretending and start taking responsibility for the results of his failed strategy: There are more terrorists. Al Qaeda is resurgent and restored to full strength. And that's according to the Bush Administration."

We can't make progress, restoring sanity to our national leadership, without overcoming the deep denial that has fogged the judgement of so many for so long. We don't have to be nasty, we don't have to make gratuitous insults, we just need to tell the truth. Nothing in Edwards' statement is the least bit controversial. Very many of the people who eagerly cheered on the invasion of Iraq are now ready "to stop pretending." I predict the next year we will see the U.S. public cringe, with ever-growing embarassment, when they are forced to listen to this failed leader trot out his tired old lies in such a pathetic fashion.