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The good poeple in the Department of "How Stupid Do They Think We Are?" have really been putting in the hours this week. Now there's more!

Bush and his vice president conceded Thursday in the clearest terms yet that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, even as they tried to shift the Iraq war debate to a new issue - whether the invasion was justified because Saddam was abusing a U.N. oil-for-food program.

Ridiculing the Bush administration's evolving rationale for war, Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry shot back: "You don't make up or find reasons to go to war after the fact."

This week marks the first time that the Bush administration has listed abuses in the oil-for-fuel program as an Iraq war rationale.
(via AP)

Has anybody been keeping track of the many shifting reasons Bush has given for going to war? This is yet another one.... Have we broken 10 yet? 100?

And, gee, if it weren't the "resolute" Bush "conceding" this... Well, I'd say it, um, "mixed messages." Maybe even a flip flop. Wouldn't you?

Unfortunately, Bush's flip-flops have blood all over their soles—from all the dead bodies he's walked over on his way to stealing another election. Nice image there, farmer, if you have a moment....









UPDATE From the WaPo coverage:

Bush did not take questions from reporters after reading his statement.
(via WaPo)

Gee, I wonder why not? The Anti-Peevishness Pills hadn't kicked in yet?

UPDATE Alert reader pansypoo tells me that I previously posted an image of "slides," not "flip flops." Well, OK. Readers, can any of you point us to a better image?