Bush says "I was unprepared for WAR"

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Registered: 07-03-2008
Bush says "I was unprepared for WAR"
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Mon, 12-01-2008 - 2:08pm

I can't believe this. Bush is actually admitting he was wrong about the War!


http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Bush_I_was_unprepared_for_war_1201.html

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iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2008

Actually unprepared is worse than wrong - which means by default he was "unprepared" for becoming president - so the vetting process of the Republicans and those who voted for him must have been flawed LOLOL.....

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Registered: 08-13-2008

I'm glad he is admitting to it, even if it is late. I hope he finds peace in his life, finds something that he can focus on, and shake away what happened. If I were he, the Jimmy Carter model would look mighty tempting.


Best wishes, George.


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Registered: 01-28-2004

Remember now, Obama now has to soon make decisions without the use of hindsight. He will soon find out it is far more difficult than "Monday morning quarterbacking".

iVillage Member
Registered: 11-19-2008
Bush didn't say he was wrong about the war, he said, in retrospect, he thinks he was "was unprepared for war" in the sense that he didn't "anticipate" it...but then, no one did at the time.
iVillage Member
Registered: 11-20-2008
Isn't that part of the job of Commander-in-Chief?
iVillage Member
Registered: 07-04-2008
I just want to know when he finally figured it out. Most of us could've told him this 6, maybe 7 years ago. (Actually most of us probably didn't vote for him) I just find it funny that after all this time of beating his chest insisting he was right, there were WMD, he's a decider, your're with us or against us, he finally now is rethinking it? He didn't know the intelligence was incorrect? His own father didn't invade because he knew that once in there would be no way out. He must've been busy doing something else while his father was in office. Probably partying.
iVillage Member
Registered: 10-09-2008

I can't believe that his statements are being so grossly misunderstood.


And, the article opens with "Five years after he declared victory in Iraq on the US aircraft carrier USS Lincoln".


He did? I remember him declaring that the mission to remove Saddam Hussein was accomplished (another willfully misunderstood statement), I don't remember any sweepy victory statement meant to say that we were done in Iraq.

iVillage Member
Registered: 07-03-2008
Look, those that supported Bush will go to their graves feeling he was a good president and did the right thing by invading Iraq. I will never feel he did the right thing as far as Iraq. It's just the way it is. Before you go off on me about Clinton, I will say I resented NAFTA, and his carouzing with Monica.
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Registered: 10-09-2008

Support his decisions or not, that's up to each individual. I just resent those on the left, including the press, that try to twist his words to mean something completely different from what he is saying in order to make him look bad. It's as if they think someone like me is incapable of reading those words, or they are assuming I am a moron.


Either way, it is offensive.

iVillage Member
Registered: 08-13-2008

They were planning Iraq at least a year before troops crossed the border.


I suppose we could have given him twenty years lead time, but the


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