Bush: 'I Did Not Compromise My Principles' -- ABC NewsPresident George W. Bush Says He Will Leave Office With 'Head Held High'
Looking back on his eight years in the White House, President George W. Bush pinpointed incorrect intelligence that Iraqi President Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction as "biggest regret of all the presidency."
"I think I was unprepared for war," Bush told ABC News' Charlie Gibson in an interview airing today on "World News."
"In other words, I didn't campaign and say, 'Please vote for me, I'll be able to handle an attack,'" he said. "In other words, I didn't anticipate war. Presidents -- one of the things about the modern presidency is that the unexpected will happen."
Bush, who has been a stalwart defender of the war in Iraq and maintaining U.S. troop presence there, said, in retrospect, the war exceeded his expectations.
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My Comment: My father fought on the Russian front (in the Soviet Army) for four years during the Second World War. As he once remarked to me .... war is not a natural human endeavor .... you can never be prepared for it.