5.05.2004

Perhaps I Missed it But

CNN's poll says the American people are relatively eager to have Mr. Bush apologize for the Iraqi prisoner abuse, but I never actually caught the words "I'm sorry" in there.

My own apologies if I'm wrong - I'm still nursing a migraine from reading through the Taguba Report (one of the studies on the abuse) - but what CNN is reporting is basically what I heard in sound bytes:

    The people of Iraq "must understand that what took place in that prison does not represent the America that I know," Bush said.

I'm even going to avoid pointing out that the America Mr. Bush knows is usually quite astoundingly different than the one most of us know.