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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-10 05:43 AM
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Okay ..... some mistakes were made
Edited on Tue Nov-09-10 05:44 AM by underpants
Former President George W. Bush admits in his memoir “Decision Points” that his 2003 “Mission Accomplished” speech and his demeanor in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina were some of the professional and personal mistakes that he made. In his first one-on-one television interview since leaving the White House, the former president sat down with Matt Lauer and opened up about his regrets.

“No question it was a mistake,” (Mission Accomplished banner) Bush told Matt Lauer of the scene that still reverberates seven years later as the war raged on. “If I had to do it all over again, which you don't get to do when you're the president, you know, I'd have said, ‘Good going, men and women, great mission’ or something.”

“No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do," Bush writes.

He said he should not have done an Air Force One flyover of New Orleans while much of the city was under water. “Huge mistake,” he told Lauer

Abu Ghraib
“(I was) sick to my stomach,” Bush said. “Not only have they mistreated prisoners, they had disgraced the U.S. military and stained our good name.” Bush explained that he felt “blindsided” because he “wasn’t aware of the graphic nature of the pictures until later on.”

http://today.msnbc.msn.com/id/39976132

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WillParkinson Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-10 06:12 AM
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1. Disgraced the US military and stained our good name...
Because, naturally, torture didn't do that at all.
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mrcheerful Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-10 06:14 AM
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2. Yet he still goes out and claims that Saddam was presuing WMD's which made him a danger
that had to be taken out. You can't say something is a mistake then turn around and say you were right when you reacted to the mistake, but then again this is JR we are talking about so reality isn't something he deals with.
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icnorth Donating Member (954 posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-10 06:24 AM
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3. "Decision Points", a memoir?
More closely resembles "THE DOG WHO SANG AT THE OPERA". It will help bulk up the crayon corner in his library.
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underpants Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-10 06:26 AM
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4. He's the Decider you see
and all of his decision were disasterous
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polichick Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Nov-09-10 07:44 AM
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5. The CIC "disgraced the U.S. military and stained our good name." nt
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