POP QUIZ

QUESTION: You've looked back before 9-11 for what mistakes might have been made. After 9-11, what would your biggest mistake be, would you say, and what lessons have learned from it?

BUSH: I wish you'd have given me this written question ahead of time so I could plan for it... John, I'm sure historians will look back and say, gosh, he could've done it better this way or that way. You know, I just -- 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
I hope -- I don't want to sound like I have made no mistakes. I'm confident I have. I just haven't -- you just put me under the spot here, and maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one.

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Here's the leader of the free world. He's had nearly 3 years since the worst tragedy on American soil in 50 years, and he can't even say what he's learned? Not even canned BS?

No "Intelligence failures must be corrected"
No "there is a systemic problem in the separation between the FBI and CIA" ala Condi last week.
No bullshit reference to how "they'll stop at nothing because they hate us?"
Not even a token "9/11 changed everything"?

Nothing! Not one fucking thing!

Wouldn't you have obsessed about it for the last 2 1/2 years? Wouldn't you think that you never want anything like that to happen again? WOULDN'T YOU HAVE AT LEAST HAVE COME UP WITH AN ANSWER TO THE QUESTION "WHAT HAVE YOU LEARNED"?

God help us all.