Bush sorry for tough talk; "Words have consequences"

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During a round-table interview with reporters from 14 newspapers, the president, who not long ago declined to identify any mistakes he'd made during his first term, expressed misgivings for two of his most famous expressions: "Bring 'em on," in reference to Iraqis attacking U.S. troops, and his vow to get Osama bin Laden "dead or alive."
"Sometimes, words have consequences you don't intend them to mean," Bush said Thursday.

"'Bring 'em on' is the classic example, when I was really trying to rally the troops and make it clear to them that I fully understood, you know, what a great job they were doing. And those words had an unintended consequence."

http://www.cnn.com/2005/ALLPOLITICS/01/14/bush.regrets.ap/index.html

 

[Baliset]

I said, 'Well, it was just an expression that came out. I didn't rehearse it.'

 

[FalseTodd]

man who knew that bush commands the insurgency, too

 

[LoboUivante]

UH??