Condi's S**T HAPPENS attitude toward Iraq...Presidential or Pathetic?

US may make mistakes in 'war on terror': Rice

By Saul Hudson and Lou Charbonneau
Tue Dec 6, 7:46 AM ET

BERLIN (Reuters) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice admitted on Tuesday that the United States may make mistakes in its "war on terrorism" and promised to put them right if they happened.

"We recognize any policy will sometimes result in errors, and when it happens, we will do everything we can to rectify it," Rice said at the start of a European tour overshadowed by allegations of illegal CIA methods against terrorist suspects.

Speaking in Berlin, she declined to comment on the case of a German man, Khaled el-Masri, who was allegedly abducted to Afghanistan and imprisoned there for five months last year until the CIA realized it had got the wrong man.

But German Chancellor Angela Merkel said the U.S. government had acknowledged it blundered over Masri, who plans to sue the CIA in a case to be filed in the United States later on Tuesday. "I'm pleased to say that we spoke about the individual case, which was accepted by the United States as a mistake, and so I'm very pleased the foreign minister (Rice) has reiterated that if mistakes are made, they must immediately be rectified," Merkel told a joint news conference.

In terms of "Presidential," Junior has set the bar very, very low.