Why doesn't Bush act like a man and apologize for the mess that is the Iraq war?

Question

Seriously, he knows he screws up.
Everyone in the country knows he screwed up.

So at the very least, he owes the country an appology.

LOL, I think Kallie's been living under a rock.

Answer 1

He has never acted like a man, why would he change now?

Digger, Ditcher and Dodger. Three generations of shame.

Answer 2

Americans or specificaly Texans are known for their pride. Instead of saying "I'm sorry", they would otherwise mess up more or at least send some relief goods. but no apologies. The American government did not even apologized to Japan for the world war 2 bombing, but you know what the Japanese did? the time when the father, George Bush visited Japan and had dinner with the prime minister at that time, Bush collapsed in front of the prime minister. the japs took it as an apology since Bush seemed like collapsing infront of the minister as if asking for an apology.
But generally, americans will never apologize, even more the President.

Answer 3

Question, do you ask ever politcal figure to appolgize for mistakes, and srew up? Or just the ones you hate, or want to bad-mouth, becouse we all know your partty can do no wrong.

If the President appologizes for a war, the solders would be greatly demorlized, terrorest would win a huge victory, even if not direct, and America would lose a huge deal of support and power in the world (something we can't afford)

Sure, he made a few bad calls, and they do have some major effects on us all.

But for the sake of America, he can't appologize now, as it would hurt America to much, just so you can say he's weak, soft and unable to do anything.

he must have done something right, becouse we DID re-elect him, and please don't Blame vote fraud, becouse one man can't have that much power, unless he had a huge deal of support form all sides.

Answer 4

This is a particularly apt question, since recovered alcoholics are supposed to admit they heve had a problem. Yet Bush cannot bring himself to admit the slightest error. Maybe it's the public arena of the thing; he might admit doubt at home.

History will consider the recent involvement in Iraq as a "military adventure", like Napoleon going to Egypt.

It really doesn't interest anybody "outside of a small circle of friends". Or anyway it won't after a century or so.

Answer 5

Bush is the only president we've had in years that DOES act like a man. He doesn't take weekly polls to see if he is still popular. He tries to do what he was elected to do. Make decisions based on what is best for our country.
He doesn't degrade our white house by having sex in the oval office. He respects the office.
If clintoon had done his job, we wouldn't have had a SECOND attack on the world trade center.

Answer 6

Bush should inform the Americans and the world of the fiasco in Iraq that no weapons of mass destruction was found and the invasion was a big mistake.

Answer 7

He owes the country much more than an apology, He owes: - all the money illegally spent on the war, compensation to the families who've lost loved ones in the war
compensation to the state of New Orleans
compensation to the other people who died in the war
compensation to his own political party
and much, much more to to the country.

Answer 8

The deadliest enemies of nations are not their foreign foes; they always dwell within their borders. And from these internal
enemies civilization is always in need of being saved. The nation blessed above all nations is she in whom the civic genius of the people does the saving day by day, by acts without external picturesqueness; by speaking, writing, voting reasonably; by smiting corruption swifly, by good temper between parties; by the people knowing true men when they see them, and preferring them as leaders to rabid partisans or empty quacks.
---William James

I must study politics and war that my sons may have liberty to study mathematics and philosophy. My sons ought to study matematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce and agriculture, in order to give their children a right to study painting, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry and porcelain.
---John Adams

I begin to regard the death and mangling of a couple of thousand men as a small affair, a kind of morning dash--and it may be well that we become so hardened.
---William Tecumseh Sherman

An apology isn't coming because he did what he felt was right. If for some reason he begins to second-guess himself, beware- it will never cease.
--- Me.

Answer 9

He thinks that he took the right course of action. He had plans to invade before 9/11, so this had nothing to do with the War on Terror except as an excuse.

Answer 10

Andy Rooney said tonight on 60 Minutes that no president has ever apologized, from Carter, to Reagan, to Clinton, and it's unlikely Bush will either.

Answer 11

Yes, Billy Bett. Cheating on your wife and trying to cover it up is a much bigger offense than lying through your teeth and sending young American men and women over to Iraq to die and sentencing to death, many more Iraqis to than those who died on 9/11. Being unwilling to admit he made a mistake or God forbid, not intelligent enough to know it is nothing to admire the idiot for.