Oh crap! I do wish the president hadn't said this. He has NOTHING to apologize for. What I'd prefer he do is go after his accusers who have lied about all sorts of things and the administration has maintained radio silence.
How about 3000 dead Americans and deficit spending?
They kept yelling for him to "apologize," and now he's done so - but for mistakes, not for the whole idea. Mistakes were made. We weren't harsh enough, basically, and handled too many things (mosques, for example) with kid gloves. This encouraged the terrorists.
We also didn't realize how much we would be undermined domestically by the press and the Dems, who made us look weak rather than merciful and basically encouraged the terrorists by attacking Bush rather than the terrorists and their supporting countries.
But it's a long way from acknowledging mistakes and saying the whole thing was wrong. And obviously, now that he has said this, the Dems can't complain about his taking a totally different tack and launching the all-out fight as we should have done in the first place. (Which is what I HOPE he is going to do.)
Well when we took out nazi germany & japan it caused instabliity. If we left those two countries (cut & run) to the Soviet Union it would been a diaster but we did not. So the world has been much better in the long run. I bet that it is the point he will make & if not I will.
He has NOTHING to apologize for.
People assume that they know what would have happened if different decisions had been made. But no one knows what would have happened if President Bush had made different decisions. The situation could be far worse now if the course advocated by some had been followed. They don't know, they just assume that they know.
I don't think personally that he apologized. I think he did what any real leader would do, what Clinton or no Democrat and most republicans never would do. He admitted that there were failures and they were his decisions. He just went up a hundred fold in my opinion, it takes a big man to admit when he's wrong.
Bush isn't perfect, but I think he's honest and I think he does want to fix the problems. Now if he really does take the gloves off and go after those who truly are TRYING to destabilize that country, we might even be able to put the insurrection down enough for the Iraqi Govt to take over.
Damn. The first mistake was agreeing to an interview with Scott Pelley...