[ShadowDancer]

Why do you think he should have to couch his remarks at all when speaking about terrorists that killed our citizens on our soil? Why should he have to back pedal at all on any of that? Maybe I'm reading you wrong and you don't think anything here might be written as said. If so, we can wait until tomorrow to find out.

[Dog Gone]

I don't think he's retracting any of his earlier statements. At most, he's conceding that some of them may have had some type of diplomatic cost that wasn't necessary. At most.

At the same time, I also know that he'll continue to say what he means and feels. He can later wish he had said it in a different way, but Dubya isn't going to suddenly become a Colin Powell and use diplomatic code words or mask his true feelings.

I'll check to see if you're back tomorrow night to trash Bush. Ping me if you want.