Ah. He was lying in his teeth.
Should have thought of that first, I suppose. As though nobody in his audience is old enough to remember what he, and others in his administration, said before.
Of course, everything Obama tells you will be the truth, not something he thinks you want to hear. Good luck next year.
You don't have to try and shoehorn Bush into your worldview. He wrote a book about what he thinks now and thought then.
P.S. Who was Obama lying to at the Malaki press conference?