Andrew Sullivan is a one agenda voter, gay rights trumps all other issues, and Bush's stance on same sex marriage and endorsing the constitutional amendment to ban it, made Sullivan turn on Bush, so this endorsement is no surprise to any informed Freeper. If you have followed Sullivan's columns, you would have noticed the about face in his writing following Bush's endorsement of the amendment.
He has merely latched on to democrat talking points in a lame attempt to justify his hackneyed endorsement.
So they didn't find WMDs ? All intelligence agencies said Saddam had them before the war. It is the intelligence communities failure, not Bush's. Would you haver preferred he did nothing and found out that Saddam did have them after a WMD was set off in one of our major cities ? Should he have trusted Saddam's word ? Especially knowing how bribed the UN, France and others were by Saddam.
Anticipating the strength of the insurgency ? Is he supposed to have a crystal ball and known that Iraq's military would fold so quickly and disappear into the populace ? In every war, the unexpected and unpredictable occur.
Those two issues are hindsight issues. Part of leading is making hard decisions, not sticking your finger in the air to see which way the wind is blowing.
The intelligence agencies are part of the executive branch. Sorry, this is no excuse; it happened on his watch.
Is he supposed to have a crystal ball and known that Iraq's military would fold so quickly and disappear into the populace?
Come on! Even I considered that possibility!