In his stump speeches, President George W. Bush repeatedly declares that the world is a different place because of the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Never mind that Bush is blatantly using Sept. 11 as the foundation for his re-election campaign. The world really is different because of what happened that day.
What the president's campaign ignores, though, is that the world also is a different place, and ever-changing, since the United States invaded Iraq last year. The nuances of foreign policy that applied two years ago don't apply today.
While Bush prefers to live in a nerve-racking world where Sept. 11 is frozen on the calendar, most Americans have lived and learned these past three years. The presidency, like life, is an evolving, learn-as-you-go affair and need not maintain the illusion of infallibility.
By the way, why is it that admitting you're wrong is a sign of leadership in every institution except the Bush White House?
"American government is the entertainment division of the Military Industrial Complex."
"One deluded president plus an army of paralyzed editorialists = many more years of a war that is one big atrocity." - Greg Mitchell, Editor&Publisher "I trust God speaks through me. Without that, I couldn’t do my job." - George W. Bush
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