Don’t you sometimes think you’re living in an echo chamber, where things said five years ago bounce back at you, sounding only slightly different?

But most striking was Bush’s accusation that Iran has openly declared its nuclear weapons intentions, even though a National Intelligence Estimate concluded in December that Iran had stopped its weapons program in 2003, a major reversal in the long-standing U.S. assessment.

“They’ve declared they want to have a nuclear weapon to destroy people — some in the Middle East. And that’s unacceptable to the United States, and it’s unacceptable to the world,” Bush told U.S.-funded Radio Farda, which broadcasts into Iran in Farsi.

Substitute “Iraq” for “Iran,” and it’s 2003 all over again.

Update: h/t to rspicer for this, which maybe helps illustrate why it’s 2003 all over again.