[CrawDaddyCA]

Prompted by the threat of a civil lawsuit against him by Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich, the Marine who is a focus of the investigation...

This isn't an apology, it's a 'CYA' statement. Nothing like a good lawsuit to get a man to start 'crawfishing' (a Louisiana term for 'backpedaling').

[JillValentine]

Right on.

A) Kline only apologized because of the threat of the lawsuit. He's just sorry he got caught.

B) Kline's own words in his "apology": "Some news outlets have promoted incomplete statements attributed to me that gave the false impression that I have concluded those involved committed unlawful acts."

So he's blaming someone else, trying to throw responsibility off himself. Typical phony apology tactics. Just like Durbin's.

C) The praise should go to the members of Congress who DIDN'T jump on the blame-the-Marines bandwagon.

D) Like the Muslim rapists who tried to offer a phony apology to the girl they raped because they got caught, this "apology" reeks of insincerity and is too little, too late in any case. Kline's still as bad as Murtha.

[P-40]

This isn't an apology, it's a 'CYA' statement.

On the plus side, at least it was not one of those 'I apologize *if* I offended anyone' kind of statements. :)

[R.W.Ratikal]

This Congressman from the Arab state of Detroit does not speak for me.

Remember that always following such "apologies" comes a flood of lawsuits seeking damages from the U. S. taxpayer.

Atrocities happen in wartime. Deal with it.