marichiko

I have some more lessons:

5) When they tell you, "Mr. President, a plane has just flown into the Twin Towers," you do NOT grin idiotically and continue reading a child's book for 7 minutes.

6) If you know the person responsible for the attack on the US is hiding in Afganistan, you do not go hunting for him in Iraq. Its a little bit like the drunk who was searching for his keys under a street light. When asked where he had lost them, he said, "Down the street somewhere, but this is where the light is."

7) If you have made some mistakes, you fess up to it like a man and don't try to push the whole thing off onto an "Office of lessons learned." I made a really stupid mistake on some road flares. Everyone here really reamed my ass over it. I didn't tell you all that you were stupid or that my director in charge of road flares misinformed me. I fessed up to being really ignorant, sucked down the shame and learned a hard lesson. A president should be able to do what someone with fucking neurological damage can do.