Sunday, January 16, 2005

Bush on Accountability

The Washington Post interviewed the President on Friday and reported the following:

President Bush said the public's decision to reelect him was a ratification of his approach toward Iraq and that there was no reason to hold any administration officials accountable for mistakes or misjudgments in prewar planning or managing the violent aftermath.

"We had an accountability moment, and that's called the 2004 elections," Bush said in an interview with The Washington Post. "The American people listened to different assessments made about what was taking place in Iraq, and they looked at the two candidates, and chose me."
So let me get this straight. There is no reason to hold anyone accountable for their obvious failures because he won the election? So winning trumps accountability? If you win, there is no need to account for mistakes, acknowledge failures? This is quite a departure from a traditional evangelical approach to issues of sin and repentance. How can evangelicals claim that Bush's approach to governing is biblical?!?

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