Apology too late for bellicose Bush

Mr. Bush just confessed before the nation that, while everything else he did was right, those truly historic phrases "dead or alive" and "bring 'em on" were "widely misinterpreted" across the world and wrecked his popularity. What a pity. Actually, the bogus bellicosity of this fake cowboy has been very accurately interpreted around the world as the ravings of an incompetent and reckless aspiring tyrant who really has weapons of mass destruction and has been responsible for the death and maiming of thousands of his own people and tens of thousands of Iraqis. Sound familiar? But don't worry. Laura sent him to charm school and he has been practicing how to improve his engaging 'snile.' The polls should start to climb now and the world will again be safe for Enron, and Exxon, and the real American way once Iraqis "stand up." Where was "regime change" when we really needed it, like 2001? Donald W. Connolly, Linwood Published in The Press of Atlantic City on June 7, 2006