Ok, yup, in *that* sense he was wrong.
But then much of the left hemisphere is wrong in describing him as a totally senile old dodderer who claimed that "he HAD [*one* 'had'] WMDs so we had to invade!"; what he was actually doing was, as you point out, typical political double-speak.
So he actually seems still to have most of his faculties; he's still as glib as any other politician. Come to think of it, he's really pretty slick -- or many of the left-wing indignerati must be rather thick -- since he either managed to *give* them the impression he said the easily-disproven single-'had' version, or they got hold of the wrong end of that stick all by themselves.
That's all I was saying; that what he actually said wasn't quite the totally-braindead version some seemed to be arguuing against. (OK, I admit, he's *so* slick he even had me "defending" him there for a while, by dropping the context you have now so conveniently gathered together for us in one place. Sheesh! :-)
