FREDO: OSAMA WHO?

At the Blair/Bush press conference, Fredo admitted to a new mistake!


Q Mr. President, you spoke about missteps and mistakes in Iraq. Could I ask both of you which missteps and mistakes of your own you most regret?

PRESIDENT BUSH: Sounds like kind of a familiar refrain here -- saying "bring it on," kind of tough talk, you know, that sent the wrong signal to people. I learned some lessons about expressing myself maybe in a little more sophisticated manner -- you know, "wanted dead or alive," that kind of talk. I think in certain parts of the world it was misinterpreted, and so I learned from that. And I think the biggest mistake that's happened so far, at least from our country's involvement in Iraq is Abu Ghraib. We've been paying for that for a long period of time. And it's -- unlike Iraq, however, under Saddam, the people who committed those acts were brought to justice. They've been given a fair trial and tried and convicted.

Let's remind ourselves of the context of that phrase:

QUESTION: Do you want bin Laden dead?

BUSH: I want justice. And there's an old poster out west, that I recall, that said, "Wanted, Dead or Alive."


First of all, this had nothing to do with Iraq. Second, why would this be liable to misinterpretation? Surely it would be an easy matter to clear up any misunderstanding? Does Bush mean that he should've been more diplomatic?

In any case, compared to the colossal mistakes made in Iraq, this is nothing.