Yet another congressman wishes Saddam Hussein was back in power. Only this time it's a republican. But he appears to be blaming himself.

Breaking ranks with his party and reversing his earlier stance, a senior retiring Republican lawmaker said Wednesday the military strike against Iraq was "a mistake," and he blasted a "massive failure" of intelligence before the war.

The unexpected four-page statement came from Rep. Doug Bereuter of Nebraska, who until earlier this month was the vice chairman of the House Intelligence Committee -- a panel that reviewed much of the evidence the administration cited before going to war.

How brave of Congressman Bereuter to blame his very own committee for any mistakes made in Iraq. But I'll never understand this glossy explanation that Saddam was an innocent victim in this whole thing.

"I've reached the conclusion, retrospectively, now that the inadequate intelligence and faulty conclusions are being revealed, that all things being considered, it was a mistake to launch that military action, especially without a broad and engaged international coalition," Bereuter wrote in a four-page letter to his constituents.

Read "without France and Germany". God this 'unilateral' argument is getting really old. For the sake of the argument, if we did go it alone, who cares? We still got the job done. Why is a broad international coalition so important if they aren't needed militarily? Is the objective somehow more noble just because France and Germany are on board? I don't buy it.

Bereuter was particularly critical of the pre-war intelligence, which described an arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. But no such weapons have been found since the U.S.-led invasion.

Well if you can't find it, it must have never been there right? All those Kurds must have gassed themselves. And the Iranians too. Also, nevermind those sarin gas canisters found by U.S. troops. They were obviously planted by George W. Bush.

Another question that springs to mind is, if we went about this war without an international coalition, just who were we leading in that "U.S.-led invasion"? (Oh that's right... government contractors mercenaries from Halliburton.)