You wrote: "Bush has opened himself up for attack by constantly rewriting the rational for war. It was not necessary to do so."
Whether you (or Greeley) like it or not, our President explained very well and very openly and accurately the rational for the BASH*. It is clearly stated, and accurate in every detail, in this insignificant little speech:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html Perhaps you (and Greeley) missed it; most Americans didn't.
*BASH == Battle Against Saddam Hussein
It is clearly stated, and accurate in every detail, in this insignificant little speech: http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/01/20030128-19.html Thanks for the link. I reread the State of the Union speech. I found that I had forgotten the other wild falsehood in it, the high strength aluminum tubes. Notice how that story got buried after some scientists finally got it out to the press that it was impossible to use those tubes for refining Uranium.