Huh? (Or, "Eh?," as we say)

[livius drusus]

Doesn't it just mean that the Bush administration was hellbent on invading Iraq, no matter what, whether 9/11 occurred or not? And, consequently, doesn't that mean that any extraneous justification it offers is just completely bogus?

Yes, that's exactly what it means. Oceania is at war with Eurasia. Oceania has always been at war with Eurasia.

I figure it's just a way of spreading around new talking points to the various Republican operative out there spinning madly. They've probably been begging for new material since the first presidential debate. I doubt they give a rat's ass about being convincing; the aim is to generate a freshly(half)-baked excuse when the old ones are so stale even they can't stand them anymore.