Scott McClellan: “Saddam Hussein's regime retained the intent and capability to produce weapons of mass destruction...”

The federal government should have taken more responsibility, because, to the American people, I think, the federal government is the failsafe backstop to all that.

The presidency of George W. Bush veered terribly off course, and the administration was guilty of a, in his words, excessive embrace of the permanent campaign approach to governance.

We are going to do what is necessary to protect the American people. We are also going to do so in a way that adheres to our laws and to our values. We have made that very clear.

Colin Powell was apparently the only adviser who even tried to raise doubts about the wisdom of war. The rest of the foreign policy team seemed to be preoccupied with regime change or, in the case of Condi Rice, seemingly more interested…