What if he’d had the benefit of hindsight (and a snarky speechwriter)?

Bush’s Accurate Case for War:

“But here is the ultimate truth that so many of my un-American, unpatriotic critics overlook: You won’t care. You’ll still like me and support me, no matter how badly things turn out. That’s because you have short memories, and you’ll believe just about anything I tell you, even if it contradicts what I’ve told you before.”

Y’know, maybe we’re all actually fish in a tank, swimming around, schooling, with no real sense of purpose, no idea what we’re doing or where we’re going, because our brains retain only a few seconds of memory. In the greater scheme of things. Beings bigger than us keep us as pets.

• 25 Jun 2004