Leadership...

Greg at The Talent Show gets it:

We went to war because the President was "running out of patience". As the inspection process went on and on, it was more and more likely that Hans Blix and his crew weren't gonna find anything and that the U.N. wouldn't support an preemptive war. A decent leader would use this as a sign that he should re-evaluate his evidence and work harder to unite his allies, but Bush isn't even a mediocre leader. He's a shitty one who had a boner to go to war, so he undermined the weapons inspectors and issued a now-forgotten 48-hour ultimatum. The Democrats may have been cowards, but that doesn't excuse the President acting like a goddamn cowboy.