[richlevy]

President Bush said the public's decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath.

"We had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 elections," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. "The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me."

You heard it here first folks. %51 of the vote means no accountability for Iraq. How many Americans who voted for Bush would have done so if they knew that they were signing a 'stay out of jail free' card for everyone associated with the decision to go to war and it's management.

BTW, I agree that the two sentences quoted do not mean what the first paragraph states. I need to find the rest of the interview to see where they draw their conclusion.

If they are true, it can only mean one of two things.
1) GWB has finally learned how to flat out lie.
2) GWB has completely abandoned reality to listen to his advisors, and is ignoring any implication that the public caved in to socially conservative fear-mongering to elect him and that his approval for the war is below %40, not the %51 he got in the vote, and that even %51 is not enough to sweep aside issues of how this cluster-f*** of a war has been handled.