Somebody slap me silly, I'm beginning to like this guy:

Can't They Just Admit It?

By George F. Will
Thursday, October 2, 2003; Page A23

Rachel Lapp: "You said we'd be safe in Philadelphia!"
John Book: "Well, I was wrong!"
-- "Witness" (1985)

In that movie about an Amish woman and her child who become accidentally entangled in drug-related police corruption, she is reassured by the detective's assessment, which turns out to have been spectacularly mistaken. However, her trust in him and the essence of his character -- trustworthiness, which is not the same as infallibility -- are established by four forthright words. A John Book Moment would serve the Bush administration.

Mature Americans understand that to govern is to choose, always on the basis of imperfect information. So why is it so difficult for the Bush administration to candidly acknowledge and discuss what Americans are not unnerved to learn -- that much prewar intelligence about weapons of mass destruction was wrong?

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