It's going to take a lot of convincing to get me to believe that our current president is not a complete scumbag, but it doesn't help when he barfs up garbage like this in a Washinton Post interview:

We had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 elections. 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.

For one thing, the insinuation that the entire election was about Iraq is absurd. It had more to do with the fact that so many Americans are Evangelical Christians and vote in a unified Republican block than anything else. Voters came out strong for Bush in spite of his Iraq policy, not because of it. So to insinuate that the election ratified the president's policy is crazy.

More importantly, the idea that a president, any president, can do anything in the first term with impunity as long as the re-election campaign is a sucess is not only asinine, it's offensive. It might be different if the president's Iraq policy has widespread bipartisan support, but it doesn't.