It Was A Mistake

Granted, he makes this admission as he prepares to retire from Congress, but it is nice to see that he has the integrity to admit that he was wrong:

"'I've reached the conclusion, retrospectively, now that the inadequate intelligence and faulty conclusions are being revealed, that all things being considered, it was a mistake to launch that military action,' Bereuter wrote in a letter to constituents in the final days of his congressional career.

That's especially true in view of the fact that the attack was initiated 'without a broad and engaged international coalition,' the 1st District congressman said.

'Knowing now what I know about the reliance on the tenuous or insufficiently corroborated intelligence used to conclude that Saddam maintained a substantial WMD (weapons of mass destruction) arsenal, I believe that launching the pre-emptive military action was not justified.' "

Now, if only others would own up thier mistake as well.