What has Bush learned from his mistakes?
Slate
by John Dickerson
12/20/06
At his press conference Wednesday, the president was asked what lessons he's learned after five years of war. He's been asked a version of this question many times since he had such trouble answering it in April 2004. He has tried various responses over the years and none has been satisfying. This morning's answer also fell short: 'It is important for us to be successful going forward is to analyze that which went wrong, and clearly, one aspect of this war that has not gone right is the sectarian violence inside Baghdad.' It is progress of a kind for the president to talk about the need to examine past failures -- there was a time when he didn't even admit them -- but the answer still failed. First, Bush didn't actually answer the question. He talked about what went wrong, but not what he learned...
http://www.slate.com/id/2155903
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
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by John Dickerson
12/20/06
At his press conference Wednesday, the president was asked what lessons he's learned after five years of war. He's been asked a version of this question many times since he had such trouble answering it in April 2004. He has tried various responses over the years and none has been satisfying. This morning's answer also fell short: 'It is important for us to be successful going forward is to analyze that which went wrong, and clearly, one aspect of this war that has not gone right is the sectarian violence inside Baghdad.' It is progress of a kind for the president to talk about the need to examine past failures -- there was a time when he didn't even admit them -- but the answer still failed. First, Bush didn't actually answer the question. He talked about what went wrong, but not what he learned...
http://www.slate.com/id/2155903
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=John+Dickerson
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