George H.W. Bush: “It hadn't happened nearly as quickly as I hoped it would have.”

On the recordDecember 19, 2006

It hadn't happened nearly as quickly as I hoped it would have.

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President Bush acknowledges that progress in Iraq has not occurred as swiftly as he anticipated.

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