Goodbye Mr.President

Bush's Final Speech...

(...finally)

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President George W. Bush admitted mistakes but defended his accomplishments in the final White House news conference.

"Clearly, putting a 'Mission Accomplished' [banner] on an aircraft carrier was a mistake," Bush said about how his administration handled the fall of Baghdad to U.S. troops.

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"It sent the wrong message."

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He termed other aspects of the U.S. invasion of Iraq "disappointments," including the failure to find weapons of mass destruction and the treatment of prisoners at Abu Ghraib prison.

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Source: CNN - 12/Jan/2009.