The absence of any credible intelligence that Saddam possessed weapons of mass destruction didn’t trouble Bush’s incurious mind as he marched toward war. It was hard to argue facts with someone who, like the Blues Brothers, believed he was on a mission from God. In 2002, the journalist Ron Suskind got an earful from a White House aide who confirmed that Bush was now operating untethered from knowledge: “The aide said that guys like me were ‘in what we call the reality-based community,’ which he defined as people who ‘believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible
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