You idiot!!1
Don't you know that admitting to mistakes is a sign of weak leadership? If we don't bury our heads in the sand, Al Qaeda wins! You're not being patriotic by endorsing a self-effacing "leader"
If you call knowing about it in December immediate action then you may be right. It was just yesterday that a reporter asked him if he still supported Daschle his exact word was "absolutely". Trying to spin this into a virtue of character is really stretching the point. You may not have liked Ashcroft but to my knowledge he wasn't a tax cheat and was an effective head of the DOJ.
"In light of the provincial elections held in Iraq this past week, elections which were genuinely free and marred by almost no violence at all, I am retracting my claim that the war in Iraq is lost. I congratulate former President Bush for his ability to replace a failing strategy with a successful one, instead of simply heeding the thoughtless calls from myself and others to abandon Iraq to its fate by precipitously withdrawing American troops." -- Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, speaking from an alternate universe.
