[tobyhill]

I didn't say he was playing semantics but there have been a lot of decisions that have led to the violence including Zarqawi attacking the Golden Mosque. A good reporter would have followed up that question with something like,"mistakes you have made?" and not left it subject to interpretation but then again that may have been where the reporter wanted it. President Bush already said during his speech he had made mistakes and obviously there was an increase in the recent violence to what might have been had mistakes not been made.

[Laverne]

The drudge headline really makes me mad. The President did not say "MY DECISIONS" he said "DECISIONS". Drudge is misrepresenting and I just sent him an email about it. This is pathetic and typical of the media, including Drudge, of misrepresenting facts. Drudge loses enormous credibility in my book for hyping a false headline.

[highball]

President Bush already said during his speech he had made mistakes and obviously there was an increase in the recent violence to what might have been had mistakes not been made.

Exactly - which is why the follow-up you suggest would have seemed like piling on, political maneuvering from the reporter.

W has made mistakes in Iraq. Those mistakes have made the situation worse. He has admitted that he made those mistakes, we don't have to pretend that he was talking about somebody else in that quote.

He's human. It happens. The important thing is whether he learns from those mistakes, and early indications are positive.