All I heard was that Chimpy said he shouldn't have used such "tough talk" -- like "dead or alive" and "bring 'em on."
I didn't hear ANYthing about the mistakes of not taking time for the inspectors to continue, for cherry-picking intel about WMD to "make the case," for not holding off until and unless the UN Security Council formed agreement, for failing to form a strong coalition, failing to secure munitions, failing to send adequate numbers of troops with adequate armor, failing to recognize the potential disasters and costs of this fiasco, etc. etc. etc...
Yet I've seen article after article praising Chimpy's new "humility." Here is yet another one:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060528/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_vs__bushAnalysis: Bush lands in same hole as dad
(snip)
The first President Bush liked to quote Yogi Berra, his favorite pop philosopher, and his curious take on a baseball loss: "We made too many wrong mistakes."
What were the biggest mistakes of George W. Bush's presidency? When asked that at an April 2004 news conference, he said he could not think of any. A far more subdued Bush now acknowledges some major ones — and not the ones his father made.
They include "kind of tough talk, you know, that sent the wrong signal to people," Bush said at a Thursday news conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. He said the inhumane treatment of Iraqi prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison was one of the darkest marks on his watch.
So ALL he takes responsibility for -- admits to as mistakes -- is his "tough talk?"
Did I miss something?? :shrug: