From Conservative Columnist, George Will, comes this quote:
"Mature Americans understand that to govern is to choose, always on the basis of imperfect information. So why is it so difficult for the Bush administration to candidly acknowledge and discuss what Americans are not unnerved to learn -- that much prewar intelligence about weapons of mass destruction was wrong?"
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Admitting when you are wrong is an important step one takes when graduating from adolescence into adult-hood. This hard-headed inability to take responsibility for the mistakes of the administration is rather unbecoming of this president, especially as he campaigns on the "personal responsibility" issue that the right-wing thinks is so unique to their party. Isn't taking responsibility for one's actions an "adult" attribute that separates the grown-ups from the kids? I never really considered it a particularly partisan characteristic...just an adult characteristic.
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somehow, I¥d resist the temptations of any clear seperation between kids and adults. to which extend can even an adult person take responsibility for his actions when they are strongly conducted by morals and other values, dynamics and measures far beyond their heads? and to which extend is it the duty of a democratic leader exactly that: to fool a people, that blinds itself to belief, that there actually IS one box, for the good, and one, for the bad, one for rights, and one for wrongs...and which¥s powers thus - unfortunately - reduce to demonizing or glorifying their own governors - which are only symptoms of the actual desease at work here...
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