You Just Wish They All Would Admit Their Mistakes

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While in Haiti, the 42nd President highlighted the biggest criticism labeled at him on his Haiti policy :

They're led by former U.S. President Bill Clinton - now U.N. special envoy to Haiti - who publicly apologized this month for championing policies that destroyed Haiti's rice production. Clinton in the mid-1990s encouraged the impoverished country to dramatically cut tariffs on imported U.S. rice.

"It may have been good for some of my farmers in Arkansas, but it has not worked. It was a mistake," Clinton told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on March 10. "I had to live everyday with the consequences of the loss of capacity to produce a rice crop in Haiti to feed those people because of what I did; nobody else."

Oh the pains of free-trade right there and then for you all to see.

It is a mistake that no one in the media outside of the great people at Democracy Now have brought up, but at least some kudoos to Clinton for saying that. Shame it had to take a tragic event for him to say it.

But hey, at least he said it.

We sure know that his partner in this bipartisan effort, who led the effort to make Haiti ex-president the expatriate that he still currently is, sure won't fess up to his mistakes and stupid motives towards the diminutive country.

Especially his lateness clownish ways last week.