Popular Fable

Mr. Bush is repeating a falsehood that Russert is not calling him on, and that's that the action against Iraq wasn't preemptive because "the first thing he did" was go to the UN and ask the UN to act.

As I recall it, Mr. Bush had to be pushed to go to the UN. If you believe Ron Suskind, Paul O'Neill and others, the plan to take out Hussein predated 9/11 by many months.

I loathe revisionist history.