Becky,
I am beginning to believe that this Bush administration, like the first Bush administration, is showing signs of NOT WANTING to be re-elected.
First, there was the gratuitous diminishing of debate expectations of John Kerry by that genius, Karl Rove, at the same time that the mainstream media was allowed to build up expectations for W without a challenge from the White House.
Now, there is this stupid admission of something that may not even be true. Why on earth the Bush people think this will help anything is beyond me. It gives credibility to Lurch's claim that the war was just a big mistake
Republicans cannot win by being courtly and deferential. They have to learn to fight.
I think we may be disappointed in the election results next month, after all. I can already hear what all the talking points of Rather, Matthews, Brokaw, et. al. will be for the next week, just as the focus was shifting from Iraq to the improving economy.
Please. Somebody, give me some hope that this admission from the administration didn't just snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.
If President Bush wants to lose this election by NOT decisively defending the Iraq War, well it will be his fault. I'm not retreating and wavering in my conviction it was the right thing to do then and the right thing to do now.