Bush admits failure in Iraq (sort of)

[Phredicles]

In an article discussing his politicization of Sept. 11:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-bushpol13sep13,1,2452756.story?coll=la-headlines-nation

"Bush mused Tuesday about the dispute over his speech, telling a group of conservative columnists during an Oval Office interview that he would have been attacked either way.

"Imagine what they would have said if I hadn't talked about Iraq — 'Failed policy, won't talk about it,' " he said, according to an account posted on the National Review Online."

So his talking about it makes it not a failure? At the very least, he realizes people are calling it a failure; I wouldn't have given Bubble Boy that much credit if I hadn't seen this. We know the idea is rattling around in his tiny little mind, in any case.

[rhiannon55]

1. Even HE knows he's a failure

He may not often admit it, but how could anyone live sixty years (even in a bubble) and not have some sort of inkling about his effectiveness (or lack of) as a businessman and a so-called leader.

Even stupid people know on some level that they're stupid. :dunce:

[gratuitous]

2. But "failure" doesn't mean doing anything differently

So, how does that qualify as a "failure"? I make mistakes. Everyone does. Smart people try to make different mistakes each time, or recognize when a situation is tending toward the time they made a similar mistake. Yet, Bush and his corrupt cabal have said over and over again that despite all the mistakes, all the errors, all the flat-out lies, they'd do the very same thing. Presumably they'd do it in such a way that the truth didn't keep oozing out from under the cover.

If you'd do the same thing all over again, then you don't really recognize it as a failure or a mistake. Fortunately, Bush was talking to his most loyal lapdogs during this little off the record discussion, and none of them are bright enough to know this bone simple truth.