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Originally Posted by ratbastid
I don't know what POTUS you're talking about, but the consensus about GWB is that he is decidedly reticent to admit errors. That's pretty much exactly what this thread is about.
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First time he ran for office I think he admitted drug and alcohol abuse. His hole premise was his imperfection and errors.
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Yesterday he "took responsibility for the wrong intelligence" that took us to war--and it was shocking that he did so. All the news agencies just about shit themselves. The one other time in his entire term to date was when he "took responsibility" for the cluster-fuck of the Katrina recovery. That moment was equally gasp-inducing. Note that in neither case did he actually change his approach to or view of these issues. The Katrina recovery is an ongoing, though now overshadowed, cluster-fuck, and however wrong he was about Iraq, he was still right. So, okay. Take responsibility. Great. Thanks for that.
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I have heard countless times when the administration admitted intlligence was wrong. I remember the head of the CIA being removed. I remember a re-organization of intelligence agencies and a change in communication channels between intelligence agencies.
I remember the FEMA director being fired. I remember during the first week of Katrina, Bush saying we made errors and we are going to fix them.
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ace, it looks to me like you looked at this whole thread, including the cover article of a major weekly news magazine, and said, "Nope!"
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Yes.
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Really! That pretty much appears to be your response! "Nope!"
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Yes.
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Forgive me for not being convinced by that! 
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O.k.
