George Bush, Man of Peace

A great article in Slate here. Chatterbox makes the case that GWB can't fight any more wars. The best point:

He doesn't have the credibility. When President Bush justified military action in Iraq by stating that Saddam Hussein harbored chemical and biological weapons, nearly everyone believed him. Even people who opposed the war believed him! The United Nations assumed Iraq possessed stores of chemical and biological weapons; so had the Clinton administration. But no such weapons have turned up in significant quantities, making it all but certain that this prewar intelligence was incorrect. Thus Bush's first credibility problem: Next time, nobody will trust even the most fair-minded and dispassionate interpreters of intelligence data to weigh the danger accurately. Even though this may well mean the intelligence community will underestimate the danger, lest it repeat its Iraq mistake, the public will remember that these folks screwed it up last time.


I think that a great point the Kerry, or Edwards or Kerry-Edwards campaign can make is that they can restore the credibility of the US government. Regardless of why Bush was wrong about WMD he was wrong. If we dump Bush the US can just say that the liars/fakes/idiots are gone so you (The World, The US People) can trust us when the next crisis comes along.