Bush follows up on ‘based on what we know now’ …
“I interpreted the question wrong, I guess. I was talking about given what people knew then, would you have done it? Rather than knowing what we know now. And knowing what we know now, clearly there were mistakes as it related to faulty intelligence in the lead up to the war and the lack of focus on security. My brother’s admitted this. And we have to learn from that … Yeah, I don’t know what that decision would’ve been. That’s a hypothetical but the simple fact was mistakes were made, as they always are in life and foreign policy. So we need to learn from the past to make sure we’re strong and secure going forward.”
I’ve compressed the answers together here, taking out cross talk with Hannity. But it captures the gist of the floundering. Click here to see a more detailed rendition of the exchange. The upshot is he didn’t understand the question but still isn’t willing to answer it now that he does.
