Bush still sees no reason to apologise

[dogday]

If anyone was looking for even the slightest hint of second thoughts from those led the US into Iraq, they would have been sorely disappointed on the third anniversary of a war that is eating into America's soul and that may well reshape its political landscape.

More sacrifice would be required, but "our goal is nothing less than complete victory", President George Bush declared in his weekly radio address yesterday.

Ignore the doom-mongering, Dick Cheney urged his countrymen on CBS's Face the Nation programme. This was no civil war; rather the insurgents had reached "a stage of desperation". On both the security and political fronts, Iraq was showing "major progress".

Writing in The Washington Post, Donald Rumsfeld, the Defence Secretary - blamed by many for the absence of post-invasion planning - was equally unrepentant. The big picture would be determined by history, "not by daily headlines, website blogs, or the latest sensational attack", Mr Rumsfeld declared. To retreat now would be "the modern equivalent of handing post-war Germany back to the Nazis, or of asking the former Communist states of eastern Europe to return to Soviet domination because the West did not have the patience to see through the job of turning them into free countries".

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article352386.ece

His Ego Knows No Limits, He Will Go Down In History As The Worst President Ever!!!!

[gristy]

1. Personally, I don't want no stinking apology

An "apology" would trivialize the death and horror he has brought to Iraq and America.
On second thought, if he wants to resign at the same time, then ok, go ahead and apologize.

[seemunkee]

2. Does a "stage of desperation" come after "last throes"?

From CNN Monday, June 20, 2005
WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The insurgency in Iraq is "in the last throes," Vice President Dick Cheney says

[baldguy]

3. He doesn't think he's done anything wrong