A chorus being led, ironically, by the NYT and the Dems in US Congress.....

Nah.

Interrupting political silence for a rare, pro-Bush comment from Gould.

I fully expected GWB to minimize, obfuscate, deny, and otherwise hide from the
situation. My expectations wouldn't have been derailed if the Bush team tried
to spin some way to blame one of John Kerry's 1995 defense budget votes as the
root cause of the racist, trailer trash, sadistic sexual torture of Iraqi
prisoners.

For maybe the second or third time in over three years, I was wrong about Bush.

Accepting (US) responsiblity for the murders and torture and making a public
apology is one of the few truly presidential
actions of GWB's career. In my opinion.

Hats off to Bush for handling this in an admirable manner. His job approval
rating just tripled in my book: I think he's up to 15% now. :-)

But then again I'm not a Democrat, and I don't write for the NYT.