"I make no apologies," Rove said when an audience member asked how personally responsible he felt for the war. "It was the right thing to do. The world is better off with (Saddam Hussein) gone. We all thought he had weapons of mass destruction. The whole world did. He didn't. ...

"In the aftermath of the removal of the regime, al-Qaeda decided to make its stand in Iraq. And we have got to, in my opinion, fight `em and beat `em there; otherwise we are going to face them somewhere else."

BTW Mr Rove, "the whole world" didn't think Saddam and Co had WMD.  I didn't, for one.

The difference between theory and practise in practise ...