Don't Blame Me

By Dan Froomkin

Special to washingtonpost.com
Thursday, March 30, 2006; 12:36 PM

With his vision of Iraq belied not only by an insurgency that he didn't anticipate, but also by sectarian rivalries that he disregarded before the invasion, President Bush has come up with a new rhetorical line of attack: It's not my fault, it's Saddam's.

Agence France Presse reports: "President George W. Bush said former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein's brutal divisive legacy, rather than the US-led invasion, was to blame for Iraq's current sectarian violence."