Bush Admits To Failing The American People

In a surprising move President Bush has admitted that he misled the American people on the need to invade Iraq, that the invasion was launched with insufficient troops to secure the borders and maintain order, that administration officials had absolutely no clue as to what to do once Saddam was deposed, and that all these factors combined to create an atmosphere of total chaos in which tens of thousands of people have unnecessarily died.

Bush also concedes that immediately after the September 11th attacks there was a tremendous amount of goodwill and sympathy throughout the world, and that he completely squandered all that international support by invading a country that had nothing to do with the attacks. Bush went on to say that he now realizes that he became cocky after the tremendously successful attack on Afghanistan to depose the Taliban, and that this attitude of invincibility contributed to what has become a fiasco in Iraq. He also now says that the diversion of resources and attention to Iraq has allowed the Taliban to make a resurgence in Afghanistan.

The President further acknowledges that his intervention in the Terry Schiavo case a year ago was nothing more than political grandstanding, and that the entire Republican party should be thoroughly ashamed for its actions in the matter. He goes on to say that the Federal government vastly overstepped its bounds in what was an unfortunate family dispute that should have been resolved locally. Bush says that as President, he should have had the cojones to stand up to the Christian right, which has now taken over the Republican party. As a result of that takeover, adds Bush, the GOP has lost sight of the fact that it once stood for having a smaller, less obtrusive Federal government.

Bush also admits that by overseeing the explosive growth of the federal government during the last four years--as well as the ever-exploding size of the deficit--he has betrayed the ideas espoused by Ronald Reagan.

The President goes on to accept the argument that the warrantless domestic spying program he started is wrong, and suggesting that it could have prevented the 9/11 attacks is nothing more than another lie. In fact, says Bush, those attacks could have been prevented if officials had been more focused on the warning signs popping up in the months before they killed 3000 people. That goes for both officials in his own administration who ignored intelligence reports, as well as leaders at the FBI who ignored disturbing reports from field offices about middle eastern men training as pilots.

Additionally, Bush admits that he dropped the ball on New Orleans. He had a duty to be more involved in the unfolding disaster even before Katrina hit, and that afterwards he should have immediately stepped in when officials became overwhelmed, both by the magnitude of the unfolding tragedy, and the absurd bureaucratic hurdles that kept popping up. After all, added the President, saving human lives shouldn't be dependent on getting signatures in triplicate on a requisition form.

In short, Bush now admits that he is a nincompoop.

APRIL FOOL!!!!!!!!