As A Texas Loyalist Who Followed Bush To Washington With Great Hope And Personal Affection And As A Proud Member Of His Administration, I Was All Too Ready To Give Him And His Highly Experienced Foreign Policy Advisers The Benefit Of The Doubt On Iraq. Unfortunately, Subsequent Events Have Showed That Our Willingness To Trust The Judgment Of Bush And His Team Was Misplaced.

-Scott McClellan

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As A Texas Loyalist Who Followed Bush

Scott McClellan

As A Texas Loyalist Who Followed Bush To Washington With Great Hope And Personal Affection And As A Proud Member Of His Administration, I Was All Too Ready To Give Him And His Highly Experienced Foreign Policy Advisers The Benefit Of The Doubt On Iraq. Unfortunately, Subsequent Events Have Showed That Our Willingness To Trust The Judgment Of Bush And His Team Was Misplaced.

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Team

Texas

Iraq

As I Have Heard Bush Say, Only A Wartime President Is Likely To Achieve Greatness, In Part Because The Epochal Upheavals Of War Provide The Opportunity For Transformative Change Of The Kind Bush Hoped To Achieve. In Iraq, Bush Saw His Opportunity To Create A Legacy Of Greatness.

War

Opportunity

Greatness