Sigh. I’m trying to move away from post after post about Bush, since that’s kind of an easy and cheap shot these days, but this is just too perfect. ThinkProgress, those overly anal-retentive moonbats, picked up this gem of Bush in 2005, speaking on the subject of sending more troops to Iraq. Complete with video!

Some Americans ask me, if completing the mission is so important, why don’t you send more troops? If our commanders on the ground say we need more troops, I will send them. But our commanders tell me they have the number of troops they need to do their job. Sending more Americans would undermine our strategy of encouraging Iraqis to take the lead in this fight. And sending more Americans would suggest that we intend to stay forever, when we are, in fact, working for the day when Iraq can defend itself and we can leave. As we determine the right force level, our troops can know that I will continue to be guided by the advice that matters: the sober judgment of our military leaders.

The most brilliant thing the Republican party ever did was convince the country in 2004 that Bush was a man of steadfast resolve who never reversed his position on anything. I’d laugh if the other half of the punchline weren’t thousands of dead bodies.