Originally Posted by Some day

"By far the most important action I took in foreign affairs during the time I was President was related to Iraq," wrote G W Bush in his autobiography. In a speech several years after he "took" Iraq, Bush explained: "There are plenty of other things I started merely because the time had come that whoever was in power would have started them. But Iraq would not have started if I had not taken hold of it, because if I had followed the traditional or conservative method I should have submitted an admirable state paper to Congress… the debate would be proceeding at this moment… and the beginning of work on Iraq would be fifty years in the future. Fortunately [the opportunity] came at a period when I could act unhampered. Accordingly I took one country, started Iraq and then left Congress not to debate the ME but to debate me."