December 2008
2 posts
History will judge you, Mr. Bush
Official History Spotlights Iraq Rebuilding Blunders
The history, the first official account of its kind, is circulating in draft form here and in Washington among a tight circle of technical reviewers, policy experts and senior officials. It also concludes that when the reconstruction began to lag — particularly in the critical area of rebuilding the Iraqi police and army — the Pentagon simply...
W learns there are no do-overs in world affairs
Transcript: Gibson Interviews Bush GIBSON: You’ve always said there’s no do-overs as President. If you had one? BUSH: I don’t know — the biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq. A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein. It wasn’t just...