Pretty much the same as you on the issues before the war. I wasn't fooled by things apparently other people heard as arguments, Saddam alone was enough.

Bush is hardly inflexible, just determined. Arrogant? Compared to what? After Clinton and Gore? At least Clinton was nominally better at hiding it. Unwilling to admit mistakes, no, we see that as not dwelling on them to the point of paralysis. The last guy to do that, Carter, was a disaster. I don't think the plane evidence is as clear as so many people who've apparently never had to do post mortems on their own major screw ups, or anyone else's for that matter. No one dies in my line of work when we screw up, but millions of dollars are often at stake. I never think to blame the guy whose watch it is when something happens, he doesn't owe anyone an apology. Ben Laden earned that honor. I think the Buck stops here died a couple of administrations ago, politics killed it.

I change my mind over time, too. I voted against Dubya 24 years ago.