I call bullshit on Bush's Mia Culpa!

First off, how can someone say "I regret Abu G" but claim "he is the decider" and keep the architect of Abu in his post, keep Gitmo open, keep the legal architect as the head of DOJ?

And honestly, I don't care what he regrets saying, what he should regret is the number of lives lost. I cal bullshit and yes, as a critic, I do not accept this as somehow proof of his humanity or humility.

It won't work.

they love the idea. The backwash is very bloodthirsty as long as someone else is doing the killing and the dying.

Everybody else (reality-based community) knows he wasn't being sincere.

sincere and it's too DAMN LATE.

bush LIED~ SOLDIERS AND INNOCENT IRAQIS DIED!!

he would not have uttered those same words, were his popularity at 75%.

so that they don't look so evil when they're on trial at the Hague. :)

'Cause it's been nothing but bullshit.

I'm surprised he didn't say, "I regret trading Sammy Sosa." Is that on the 3x5 card as the standard answer?

An apology is fine but it isn't enough. When you kill a woman's son, for instance, you don't just say "Oh. I'm sorry" and hope that everything's going to be golden. Sorry doesn't cut the cocaine.
Ringo

I would have been amazed if he would've said he regretted the lives lost, but no, he regrets acting like a macho asshole. That whole press conference was a joke!

Said he knew it would be coming, not as a plant, just that he'd been asked that before and probably had worked on the answer.

Bush's major problem is he can't deliver a speech or announcement that's been prepared for him -- he ends up merely reciting has been type out for him without a clue as to what the hell point he is trying to convey and it's so ignorant of his handlers.

Smirky did not apologize for anything. He said his language was misinterpreted (somebody else's fault). He said " we've been paying for Abu Ghraib for a long time. But Sadam was worse." again somebody else's fault, and he's already paid for it. Everything he might have done wrong has a caveat. He still takes responsibility for nothing. And the poodle pants at his feet.

he doesn't have one sincere bone his scrawny creeped out body. He's the spawn of Barbara and George -

To: RobFromGa

I caught that too.

I liked the "Dead or Alive" frankly. I wish he hadn't listed that as a regret.

President Bush seems very tired tonight, to the extent that it seems like he has the flu or a cold.

72 posted on 05/25/2006 5:24:16 PM PDT by KJC1

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To: RobFromGa
... and Abu Ghraib, we've been paying for that for a while...

This wasn't Bush's mistake or the a mistake by the US Military in Iraq....it was a crime committed by a few bozos in charge at Abu Graib and that is ALL.

The question was about mistakes Bush regretted, and this was not a mistake Bush made.
73 posted on 05/25/2006 5:25:12 PM PDT by Jorge

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To: Jorge

THAT'S OK... I think he said those 'mistakes" cause it was also a good political move for overseas.

Excellant press conference. i just love bushie...he's so real.

77 posted on 05/25/2006 5:28:51 PM PDT by Recovering Ex-hippie (Illegal Aliens....STFU!)

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To: RobFromGa

It would've been great if he mentioned that we HAVE recovered WMDs (we have found sarin, mustard gas and ordinance Saddam claimed he didn't have - including 1.77 metric tons of radioactive material), and that some were moved out because of the reasons you stated.

84 posted on 05/25/2006 5:40:44 PM PDT by RasterMaster (WITH "BIG TENTS" YOU GET CLOWNS & CIRCUS FREAKS! The road to HELL is paved with LIEBERALS!)

These people are brownshirts. They are loyal to their party, not their Nation.

"bushie's so real"!?? Yeah, bush is a real lyin' murderin' sob.

bush looked like he had the flu, huh? I'll just bet he was pale and sweatin' toxic gas.

Is this like so secret that the administration doesn't know abou it

it on no one, just that the U.S. made a mistake with Abu Ghraib, so it wasn't HIS mistake.

And Scarborough just called him on it. Said it was a non-acceptance of responsibility.

Called it cynical. He was only sorry for his words, not his actions. He thought it was rehearsed. Wow, that's Joe Scarborough. He said he 'was not moved'.

edit: punctuation

I cannot even bring myself to type it hardly.

lol

did after Chris Matthews was all swoony and bewitched by GW's manliness or whatever and compared him to Abraham Lincoln.

I used to really hate the way he walked in lock step. Suddenly, he started sounding like he got his own brain and wasn't sharing one with the neo-con Bush worshipers. He still likes the war, but he seems to disagree more with Bush than agree.

On the other hand, Tweety seemed to go along with the war at first. Now He acts like he was always against it. Maybe it's because his brother is running for office in PA, but he really tows the party line.

I think MSNBC took Buchanan and Press off the air because both of them were against the war. They were supposed to disagree with one another, but they were in agreement over the biggest issue of this administration.

Tonight, Tweety said that "Pat Buchanan is no longer with us." I turned to my husband and asked "Did he die or was he fired from MSNBC." Buchanan showed up later, on Scarborough, so he didn't die or get fired. Why did Tweety say that?

(Edited for spelling)

"...and, stay the course."

to say if the question came up. He's never more phony than when he's "sincere" and *cough* humble. Load of crap.

But some of the media will swoon at it. Chris Matthews already compared him to Lincoln. :crazy:

of bush's WEAKNESS!

Apologies are worthless.

...told him that it would be a good idea to pretend that
he's a normal human boy--and to do a better job of hiding
the fact that he's a sadistic, evil, pig-sucking bucket of
arrogant slime from the bottom of a New Jersey scum swamp.

That's my guess, anyway.

(I should write for Hallmark)

:applause:

Actor Mike Farrell speaks out on the war:

I loathe the people who have created this monstrosity. I want the criminals who lied and cheated and pretended and twisted and perverted reality - and those who rationalized their crimes - so they could send over 2400 servicemen and woman to their death, nearly 18,000 to come home torn - some never to be whole again - thousands more to suffer mental damage, and tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi civilians to be swept into the garbage can of "collateral damage," to pay. These bastards and their apologists should be stripped naked and forced to walk the main streets of America, allowing every city and town that has lost a loved one to injury or death in this shameful catastrophe to heap on them the scorn they deserve.

John F. Kennedy said America would never start a war. Well, it has now, and its architects have damaged our character, poisoned our standing in the world and soiled the soul of what was once the greatest nation in the history of the world.

---by Mike Farrell

Well said, Mike!

Yes very well said Mike.

The talking yo-yo's didn't even buy it. Stick a fork in him. He's done.

check the transcript

and besides, that whole "apology" scam was scripted and a planted shill asked the question. Every single panelist including Tucker thought the same thing on Scarborough. It was obvious.

You have to FIND someone before you can "Dead or Alive" them...

Bring it on - Oh Yeah, its been brought on BIG TIME...

Abu Ghraib - Bush can barely say it, much less understand the damage he has caused by it.

MIA CULPA MY ASS!!!

BULLSHIT IS RIGHT!!!

non-apology apology–the "I'm sorry if you were offended" statement that doesn't actually take any responsibilty for actually offending anyone. Or, in Bu$hCo's case, not so much offending as causing the death of thousands upon thousands of innocent people. Maybe he could've said "I'm sorry you all got yourselves killed."

MEA CULPA THIS (INSERT MY MIDDLE FINGER HERE) YOU MOTHER FUCKING WORTHLESS PIECE OF SHIT!

I just about choked when I saw that piece of tape on Keith Olbermann this evening.

Hey, here's a question for *: Will he be making a full and face to face apology to the thousands whose loved ones have died in Iraq? His faux contrition means NOTHING.

Julie

You are so right.

This is part of what we used to laugh at as the "charm offensive" which in fact did stalwart duty to Bush before the blank check of 9/11 was self delivered to the WH. This is part of a plan, not a change of heart, not a single, REPEAT, not a single concession or accountable consequence ever given for anything. Not an inch of compromise, retreat or delay except in Bush world he would have loved to bring the troops back (to Iran) on the now inconsequential popularity front. This is supposed to soothe people's rising outrage, but answer nothing, change nothing. War, their only real card left in their control, is still the gamble. But even if the people do not fall into line, the insipid character even of the GOp overlords themselves offer Bush no immediate or real threat. Neither do the misinformed, divided and disenfranchised masses.

I sometimes thought they were taking chances. Now I doubt they take any unless they are very stupid- as Cheney can be. They have lifetimes of unrequited crimes and payoffs and experience at at least staving off and veering off and corrupting any decent opposition. Failures yes. Consequences? Avoided as long as you keep thrusting forward and sweeping up more control, part Hitler part "no money down" scam artists.
If the crimes magnify what more can they be executed for? No, they multiply their crimes in order to multiply the consequences of trying to reverse their schemes and even call any of it to account.

The next president will be dared, like Carter after Nixon, Clinton after Regan/Bush, to even try to go a step beyond just doing the mundane job efficiently for a change. The dare will be hardly accepted, maybe not even consciously thought of much, and as damaging as a terminal cancer in its magnitude this time if not dealt with and dangerously crippling in reality this time more than it was after the Kennedy assassination and Nixon years. So far the dare hardly ever has to be real, so feeble is the political will of the nation, a weakness more fatal at the top than at the ignorant vulnerable denizens of various realms of American Disneyland.

And while these brief magnanimous statements fall like a penny from a miser's tight fist, the real actions of the administration will be more dictatorial, more destructive and on schedule for war.

Then he flings poo at the window.
He is an idiot who lies and lies to himslef too. A fart in the wind.