If I were a presidential candidate... - David Frum

http://theweek.com/bullpen/column/221471/if-i-were-a-presidential-candidatenbsp/2

David Frum invented the term "Axis of Evil". David Frum scripted much of what Bush said in the run-up to the Iraq War. This may be as close to a mea culpa as you are going to get.


9. Iraq: Knowing everything you know now, if you had been in Congress in 2002, would you have voted to authorize force against Saddam Hussein, yes or no?
No. For an Iraqi, there was no price too high to pay to rid the country of Saddam Hussein. For Americans, the issue was not Saddam's badness, but his nuclear weapons program. Knowing that the nuclear program was not a real threat, the invasion was too large a commitment. The world is a better place without Saddam, but as with everything, the question is one of costs and benefits. The costs to the U.S. were too high, the benefits to the U.S. too few.