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On the recordApril 21, 2004
The first lesson in life your parents teach you and your first grade teacher teaches is one learns from their mistakes. That is the first lesson in life. Usually by 8 in the morning my wife has identified four of them for me. By 5 when I am heading home, I come to the conclusion she may have something there. But to not have known, as my colleague identified four in literally a minute, the first lesson is you learn from your mistakes. Saying that he cannot think of one is why we got the situation we got both in the war and on terror. In 3 years 3 wars, and he cannot think of one thing he would do different, even if he did not want to call it a mistake. Well, we do not like somebody, so we go over and shut it down. These Iraqis say, hey, what is this about? I thought we had free speech now that we had democracy. Now, clearly we want them to have free speech as long as they say what we want them to say.
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Rep. Rahm Emanuel
Illinois

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Criticizing the President's inability to acknowledge mistakes in foreign policy and the implications for democracy in Iraq.

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