If Bush Took a Mulligan on the Three Mistakes Question...

[Stephanie]

If he weren't a moral coward, he might say:

I regret that I did not anticipate nor prevent the attacks of September 11th, and I deeply, deeply regret the loss of those 3000 lives on that horrific day. It happened under my watch.

I regret the intelligence failures prior to the Iraq War, and I will do everything in my power to prevent such a failure in the future. It happened under my watch.

I regret the atrocities at Abu Ghraib. It happened under my watch. I bear full responsibility.

But, of course, he would never say any such thing.

What else, realistically, could he have said?

[beyurslf]

1. I wanted KErry so bad to stand up and say, "Ma'am I think when you ask a

question like that, you want the President to name 3 mistakes he made. Since he can't do that, I will for him." And then list them.

Remember, in Bush's answer, he said something like ... when people ask this, what they really mean is do I think it was wrong to go into Iraq. She didn't ask that at all and I think she was just following up on the question from the press conference when he asked the same thing.

[WhereIsMyFreedom]

2. None of those were mistakes

9/11 happened just like he planned for it to happen. There was no intelligence failure because he was feeding us the lies that he came up with. The only possible mistake with Abu Ghraib was that the public found out about it, not that it happened.

That's why he can't answer that question.

[Stephanie]

3. He's like OJ. He says he's hunting for the 'real killers'

But he never actually does it.

[seabeyond]

4. boy and wasnt that easy,

and how much i would respect that, might make me vote for bush, then again, for bush to say something so powerful, it would not be bushie boy

[Stephanie]

5. Bush's biggest mistake may turn out to be -

refusing to admit a mistake!

[Stephanie]

6. just

once

[Stephanie]

7. well, one more

It needs to be known that Bush refuses to say that he has any responsibility for any of the catastrophic failures of his administration.