Doesn’t read polls, my ass:
A jaw-dropping moment occurred in Bush and Blair’s Thursday presser: Bush said he regretted saying “bring it on” (precise wording in 2003 was “bring ‘em on”) and “wanted dead or alive.” He admitted he should have been more sophisticated in his use of language.
The significance of this shouldn’t go unnoticed. Bush has now admitted what the progressive blog community has said all along: Bush’s tough talk was wrongheaded and cost lives.
While contrition may be a media policy that works with our lapdog press (and judging from CNN’s first blush of commentary, it seems to be getting the desired result), America must now ask what this admission means. Does Bush take responsibility for the deaths generated by his admitted mistake? Does he accept the logical conclusion that his bluster resulted in the killing and maiming of hundreds if not thousands of US troops?
Don’t wait for the media to acknowledge the gravity of this admission. Watch it slip by. It’s too frightening a thought for them that Bush was dead wrong and the netroots right. It will be spun as a positive for Bush - as a CNN reporter just said, “a Texan regretting his swagger.”
Sorry, this is inside baseball and doesn’t mean squat.
As stupid as the comment was, it was irrelevant. The resistance in Iraq isn’t resisting George Bush’s inane remarks. They are resisting the American occupation of their country.