WMDs

So the hunt for weapons of mass destruction is officially over. And, uh, we didn't find any.

The justification for invading Iraq was essentially baseless. That means we've spent two years at war, suffered the loss of almost 1500 American soldiers with tens of thousands more maimed and scarred, killed unknown thousands of Iraqis, spent hundreds of billions of dollars, left American forces stretched too thin to deal with new crises, distracted ourselves from securing Afghanistan and defeating Al Qaeda, created a power vacuum in Iraq which has led to civil war, empowered nuclear Iran, ruined our international reputation, and assisted in the recruitment of a whole new generation of American-hating jihadists, all because we couldn't give inspections, which were working, a few more months.

Bush has said that, knowing what he knows now, he'd still go into Iraq. Knowing that there were no weapons, totting up the costs and benefits, he'd do it all over again. He would do the same thing.

I really don't know what to say. And the second term hasn't even started yet.