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President Bush said the public's decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath.
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so, it doesn't matter how bad the planning, how skewed the intelligence, how many people get killed, how many billions we spend, how many years we get mired in Iraq for, or what a stupid decision it was in the first place - all that counted was that the prez got re-elected. therefore, everything he does is ok....and by extension, everything anyone in his administration does is ok and nobody's accountable for anything. he's right - he wrote a blank check against the future of the country and the public was stupid enough to sign it. case closed.
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"We had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 elections," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post.
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so he's basically saying that the election validates anything he does - so much for acting on principle
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...2005Jan15.html