Howard: slow learner?

PM John Howard is one of the few commentators on the US elections to play down the role of the Iraq War on the Republican electoral defeat.

Is this just another example of his inability to admit he was wrong?

• Howard was very slow to admit that there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq
• He was slow to admit there were no children thrown overboard
• He was the last to to acknowledge the war in Iraq had made the world less secure
• He still shows extreme sluggishness about whether Global Warming needs to be tackled
• He has yet to recognise that Nuclear Power remains more of a problem than a solution
• Slow on water policy, slower on recognising Kyoto, going backwards on human rights. Slowly increasing interest rates and still refusing to recognise how damaging they are.
  
• Slow to admit his IR laws affected the results of two State Elections and are likely to do same in a third.
  

Howard's slowness is largely the result of trying to permanently hitch Australia to the insane Bush bandwagon; in effect he has handed over all policy to a foreign power. More parrot than patriot!