"President Bush acknowledged a good deal of introspection after all the questions lately about his government's actions before the Sept. 11 attacks and in Iraq, but not a whiff of contrition. Bush was asked in his prime-time news conference if he had made any mistakes. "I'm sure something will pop into my head here," he said Tuesday. It didn't. Bush is rarely one to second-guess himself and wasn't about to now, despite failures highlighted in the government's pre-Sept. 11, 2001, intelligence operations, the futile search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq and all the recent violence there. "I don't want to sound like I have made no mistakes," he said Tuesday night. "I'm confident I have." But "maybe I'm not as quick on my feet as I should be in coming up with one."
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