I'm not a big fan of playing semantics or nit-picking to say I gotcha! I believe that the vast majority of the time we make ourselves rather clear whether in speech or writing. Of course there are exceptions - that's why some attorneys make a load of money, eh? And there is no doubt that words matter. That's why I'm sick and tired of listening to everyone from the talking heads in the stoopit box to reglar folks in the coffee shop to the irritating POS hisself talk about *Bush's mistakes. Mistake at the very least implies something accidental or unintended. But there was nothing that was or could be construed as unintended about the invasion and occupation of Iraq. That was purposeful and decisive, very much according to a plan. Failing to have a plan for afterward is also no mistake. Not making a decision is just as surely actively making a decision as opting for plan A) b) or C). Especially for a self anointed Decider. Deciding to torture people and attempting to cover your ass legally with opinions from halfassed lawyers in memos is also. I submit, not a mistake but rather a calculated decision, made with a full array of information and access to a variety of opinions, including past practice of the United States.Faulty reasoning perhaps, but by no means wa it any sort of a mistake. To call these decisions and the actions taken, the situations resulting from them a mistake is to minimize them and take away from them the import they had, and the fact that even within the inner circle(at least for a while) there were dissenting voices until they were shoveled out the door that counseled other, better strategy, or at least a softer slower more thoughtful approach.While I'm sure there were mistakes made in the White House in the last eight years, the major blunders were not mistakes but failures in leadership and ideology on a grand scale rarely seen in the annals of history. Let's not allow this administration to get off the hook by owning up to a few mistakes and moving on.
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original-dictionary.commis⋅take:
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noun, verb, -took, -tak⋅en, -tak⋅ing.
–noun
1. an error in action, calculation, opinion, or judgment caused by poor reasoning, carelessness, insufficient knowledge, etc.
2. a misunderstanding or misconception.
–verb (used with object)
3. to regard or identify wrongly as something or someone else: I mistook him for the mayor.
4. to understand, interpret, or evaluate wrongly; misunderstand; misinterpret.
–verb (used without object)
5. to be in error.
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