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AP reports: “Italian Premier Silvio Berlusconi, one of President Bush’s strongest supporters over Iraq, says he tried repeatedly to dissuade the American leader from going to war and was never convinced military force was the best way to bring democracy.”

Berlusconi did not elaborate on what other options could have been advanced. Now, we hear the words of a man who’d rather grovel to stay in office than stand strong and say, “Molto buon. We did the right thing”

“I was never convinced that war was the best system to bring democracy to the country and to get rid of a bloody dictatorship,” Berlusconi said of Saddam Hussein’s Iraq. “I tried several times to convince the American president to not go to war.”

“I believed that military action should have been avoided,” he was quoted as saying.

Instead, a mighty coalition consisting of Jacques Chirac, Gerhardt Schroeder, George Galloway, Cindy Sheehan, Michael Moore, Sean Penn and Martin Sheen, all led by the U.N.’s Kofi Annan, would’ve written some very forceful correspondence using the strongest language known to diplomacy — maybe even produced an accompanying music video — demanding Saddam to step down, stop supporting terrorism, stop killing, torturing and raping his people, and — we really, really mean it (don’t make us issue another resolution) — to introduce feedom and liberty into the region.

That woulda worked. Duh. What were we thinking?

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