[Peace-discuss] leaders when they are wrong

[Karen Medina]

> Schieffer: you played down the insurgency 10 months ago. You said it 
> was in its last throes.

> Cheney: “the statements we've made, which I think were basically 
> accurate and reflect reality

Cheney and Bush will never say they are/were wrong, just as Saddam 
Hussein will not ever say that he did anything wrong. I think that even to 
their last breaths will they hold to their beliefs that they were right, like 
Milosevic, they believe they are heroes. They have been lieing to 
themselves from day one. 

What I don't get is how human beings stop lieing to themselves? I mean, 
sure, as human beings we all tell ourselves little lies, but most of later 
come to realize that we were wrong and at least admit it to ourselves. But 
how do we get to that point of honest personal reflection?

Then how do we get our leaders to do this and stop their madness?

-karen medina
  
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>     Bob Schieffer: “Mr. Vice President, all along
>     the government has been very optimistic. You
>     remain optimistic. But I remember when you were
>     saying we'd be greeted as liberators, you played
>     down the insurgency 10 months ago. You said it was
>     in its last throes. Do you believe that these
>     optimistic statements may be one of the reasons
>     that people seem to be more skeptical in this
>     country about whether we ought to be in Iraq?”
>     Dick Cheney: “No. I think it has less to do with
>     the statements we've made, which I think were
>     basically accurate and reflect reality, than it
>     does with the fact that there's a constant sort of
>     perception, if you will, that's created because
>     what's newsworthy is the car bomb in Baghdad. It's
>     not all the work that went on that day in 15 other
>     provinces in terms of making progress towards
>     rebuilding Iraq.”
>     Face the Nation, March 19, 2006,
>     http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/02/26/ftn/
main1346210.shtml


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