? Mr. President, you spoke about misteps and mistakes in Iraq. What mistakesof your own do you most regret.
President: It sounds like a familiar refrain here. I guess "Bring it on". It sent the wrong signal to people. I learned some lessons to express myself in more sophisticated manner. "Wanted dead or alive". That kind of talk.
(Don't change your speaking manner, Mr. President. I like it. Clinton was a beautiful speaker but when he was done, I didn't know what he was saying).
President: Abu Graib. We've been paying for that in the world for a long time.
Tony Blair: SOme of the things we thought would be the biggest challenges weren't and the other way too. In retrospect, we could have done de-Baathication in a better way than we did. I think the most difficult thing has been the determination of people to move against the democratic process in Iraq (mostly from the media).
Presser over. I'm surprised the press corps stayed focused mostly on Iraq.