Bush: I’ve Made No Mistakes Since 9/11
WASHINGTON – American President George Bush grimaced, sighed, rambled and chuckled under his breath on Tuesday, before saying he could not think of a single mistake he had made since the September 11 attacks.
“I wish you’d have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it.” President George W. Bush during a nationally televised news conference at the White House April 13, 2004. Before the glare of live television cameras at his first prime time news conference in more than a year, Bush responded to many of the questions from reporters by repeating fairly stock phrases about freedom in Iraq and the history-changing impact of the Sept. 11 attacks. (Larry Downing/Reuters)
Before the glare of live television cameras at his first prime time news conference in more than a year, the Republican president responded to many of the questions from reporters by repeating fairly stock phrases about freedom in Iraq and the historical impact of the September 11 attacks.
But one question for which Bush was evidently not prepared invited him to name his biggest mistake since 9/11.
“I wish you’d have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it,” Bush joked before taking a long pause.
“I’m sure something will pop into my head here in the midst of this press conference, with all the pressure of trying to come up with answer, but it hadn’t yet.”
Then came a meandering soliloquy that wandered from an affirmation of his decisions to invade Afghanistan and Iraq to his firm belief that former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein possessed weapons of mass destruction and the discovery of mustard gas on a turkey farm in Libya.
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