Downing Street en Espanol

File under: Do you feel like a total fool now in voting for Bush or accepting his "reasons" for invading Iraq?

In February 2003, the president was insistent that he hoped to find a peaceful solution to his standoff with Saddam Hussein’s Iraq, and would work with and through the United Nations to resolve the conflict. At least, that was what he was saying publicly.

According to a new report published today by El Pais, Spain’s largest daily newspaper, Bush told then-Spanish Prime Minister Jose Maria Aznar at the time that he was going to invade Iraq no matter what happened.

I'm at a loss for words. It isn't like we had no clue, right?

Via Agitprop.