WHAT "humility??" Did I miss something???

[Sparkly]

All I heard was that Chimpy said he shouldn't have used such "tough talk" -- like "dead or alive" and "bring 'em on."

I didn't hear ANYthing about the mistakes of not taking time for the inspectors to continue, for cherry-picking intel about WMD to "make the case," for not holding off until and unless the UN Security Council formed agreement, for failing to form a strong coalition, failing to secure munitions, failing to send adequate numbers of troops with adequate armor, failing to recognize the potential disasters and costs of this fiasco, etc. etc. etc...

Yet I've seen article after article praising Chimpy's new "humility." Here is yet another one:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060528/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_vs__bush

Analysis: Bush lands in same hole as dad
(snip)
The first President Bush liked to quote Yogi Berra, his favorite pop philosopher, and his curious take on a baseball loss: "We made too many wrong mistakes."

What were the biggest mistakes of George W. Bush's presidency? When asked that at an April 2004 news conference, he said he could not think of any. A far more subdued Bush now acknowledges some major ones — and not the ones his father made.

They include "kind of tough talk, you know, that sent the wrong signal to people," Bush said at a Thursday news conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair. He said the inhumane treatment of Iraqi prisoners at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison was one of the darkest marks on his watch.

So ALL he takes responsibility for -- admits to as mistakes -- is his "tough talk?"

Did I miss something?? :shrug:

[Blue_In_AK]

1. No, you didn't miss anything.

He's an asshole, and the media are his lap dogs.

[MADem]

2. Great headline, though--Bush lands in same hole as dad

After all that struggle to be 'dif-runt frum hiz PAW,' it turns out the rotten little apple hasn't fallen far from the twisted old tree....

[Evergreen Emerald]

5. But isn't there supposed to be an "A" in hole?

:7

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Anyone who saw the picture of his smarmy grin after his "apology"

would know there was NO humility in those words at all.
He did not apologize for any of his decisions or actions, or the consequences; only for his choice of words. What a crock of crapola!
:grr:


"Hey guys, ya think they bought that crap?"

[BrklynLiberal]

4. Here is the article everyone should be reading!

MARY LYON FROM THE LEFT: He's Sorry, Alright

Well how 'bout that? It's no longer true that being George W. Bush means never having to say you're sorry. Bush has now actually admitted he'd blown a few little details awhile ago.

Now I have to say I'M sorry. I have to beg your indulgence. I'm in shock.

WOW, George. It's finally hit your Imperial Perfectionship that maybe you spoke a little (!?) recklessly with all that tough-guy Texas swagger-talk. Heavens to armadillos, maybe that "bring 'em on" stuff, taunting potential enemies with the lives of our troops on the line wasn't exactly the best thing to say. Gee, Cowboy George, maybe that "dead or alive" stuff just didn't hit the spitoon dead-on like you thought it would. No bull's eye for you, sonny. You wound up dribbling your chewing tobacco juice all over your expensive suit, President Bravado. It's painfully clear by now that those big ol' verbal pop guns you waved around so arrogantly at everybody three years ago shot blanks.

But in one respect, Junior is indeed sorry. He's sorry, alright. A sorrier excuse for a human being there never has been, at least in my memory.

Watching him slouch on the lectern and grope for the proper words to express his disjointed feelings while somehow still avoiding accepting full responsibility made me want to throw things at my TV. As he stared off into space (yep, kind of hard to look people in the eye when you're fumbling for an excuse to get your fanny out of a sling), gazed upward (hoping your "Higher Father" will come down and get you off this cross), hemmed and hawed, searching for words (well, that'll take all day.

A nimble command of the English language is not exactly one of his strong suits), he reminded me of the facial expressions and nervous fidgeting of my kid during the many times I caught him with yet another detention slip he hoped I wouldn't find -- that should have been signed and returned to the principal's office three weeks earlier.

Bush seems to think all he messed up was some wording. But he commits that particular sin all the time. This, along with his fabricated WMD assertions and "Mission Accomplished" strutting, just one of MANY.

It was merely the semantics he botched. BAD semantics! Shame on you! Look what you've gotten him into this time! Maybe he was misinterpreted -- the undertaste of which clearly affirms that he was still basically right. It was just in the way he said it.

That's like the non-apology apology: "I'm sorry you were offended
by..."
<snip>

more...

http://worldnewstrust.org/modules/AMS/article.php?storyid=3607

[LuckyLib]

7. LOL! "You wound up dribbling your chewing tobacco juice

all over your expensive suit." Wonderful description of Smirky's whole performance! My hubby listened to the speech (I can't stand to listen to any four strung together words spoken by that idiot) and said it was even more apparent how little he can communicate when he's compared with Blair. All it takes is someone who can actually speak, together with the built-in credibility afforded by the British accent, and Chimpy came across as the moran he is.

[BrklynLiberal]

8. I agree. I NEVER watch or listen to Dimson.

[cliss]

6. If you look closely,

there was no apology.

Bush said some of his statements had been misinterpreted around the world, in particular the Middle East.

Statements like "Dead or Alive", and "Bring 'Em On".

MISINTERPRETED.

REGRET.

This is not an apology. Notice here, he's shifting the blame away from himself, to others. YOU misinterpreted what I SAID. It's your fault.

YOU SHOULD HAVE KNOWN WHAT I MEANT>

[bumblebee1]

9. Humility?

For some reason, I didn't think the word HUMILITY was even in the Bush vocabulary.