Rice Admits Mistakes Were Made In Iraq, Won’t Say What They Were Until Bush Leaves Office

I have to take exception to Think Progress.

In an interview yesterday on Al Arabiya TV, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice was asked if the Bush administration has made any mistakes in Iraq. Here was Rice’s response:

SECRETARY RICE: …As to whether the United States has made mistakes, of course, I’m sure, we have. You can’t be involved in something as big as the liberation of a country like Iraq and all that has happened since, and I’m sure there are things that we could have done differently; but frankly, we are looking ahead. And when I’m back at Stanford University, I can look back and write books about what we might have done differently.

In other words, Rice realizes that — as bad as things are in Iraq — the Bush administration must have made mistakes. But she refuses to think about them until she leaves office. [emphasis on last paragraph mine]

No, you haven't been paying attention. She can't point out the mistakes because Bush would kick her ass down the road. He only wants warm fuzzy stories and not reality.