Excuse de jour

The Democrats campaign to challenge Bush's credibility seems to either have wonderful timing or has already started sparking comments from journalists throughout the country. So, yes, today appears to be "challenge Bush's credibility" day at different strings.

I've commented a few times on Bush's rotating excuses for going to war.  PM Carpenter, a columnist for buzzflash.com and the History News Network has this to say about the matter:

The president has buck-and-winged around the putative inexorable logic of war to the point of global ridicule and contempt. If it is Monday and the sun is shining, Bush calls the world to arms because Saddam is a despotic barbarian; if Tuesday and cloudy, because the swarthy rodent possesses wicked WMDs. Given other days of the week and climate conditions, we are exhorted to pounce militarily because Saddam is in league with al Qaeda; he might be in league with al Qaeda; he might opt to be in league with al Qaeda; he has an unhealthy interest in chemistry; he is, by implication, the only national leader in defiance of a United Nations resolution; Colin Powell has a photo collection; and so on, and so on. If one motive fails to catch fire with the public, the White House simply trots out another. A single motive or consistent combination of motives might have inspired, but the White House's hysterical explanations de jour have only managed to eviscerate the one essential of broad-based war-making support: credibility.