Don't believe everything you read in the blog world (or everything you read in the Times either.) If you look at the actual transcript of his speech, it's very hard to read it as anything close to anti-war. The Times article to which the Echaton posting relies on extremely selective quotations and dubious paraphrasing. See the transcript of the speech at
http://www.tufts.edu/communications/stories/030303BushSpeech.htm

He's as reactionary and fatuous as usual. While I was reading his comments it seemed clear that no leak had sprung in his hermetically sealed bubble existence.

But some of the things that he said seem really out of place in a speech from an ex-President who is supposedly on board with the war. He definitely has a belief in the strength of coalitions that is not shared by his son.

"Incidentally, the Madrid conference would never have happened if the international coalition that fought together in Desert Storm had exceeded (*note* transcript said "acceded", which makes no sense in context) the U.N. mandate and gone on on its own if the United States had gone on on its own, had gone into Baghdad after Saddam and his forces had surrendered and agreed to disarm. The coalition would have instantly shattered. And the political capital that we had gained as a result of our principle restraint to jumpstart the peace process would have been lost. We would have lost all support from our coalition, with the possible exception of England. And we would have lost all support from the smaller nations in the United Nations as well.

And out of that momentum that we achieved at Madrid, we later saw that historic handshake on the south lawn of the White House between Rabin and Arafat, and the Oslo Accords that followed. And we saw King Hussein of Jordan, my late, dear friend, join the steady march on the path to peace."