From an interview with Barbara Walters:
“I watch what I say. I said some things in the first term that were probably a little blunt. ‘Bring it on’ was a little blunt. I was really speaking to our troops, but it came out and had a different connotation, different meanings for others,” he told Walters.
Sorry, false alarm. He doesn’t admit to saying anything wrong; we’re the ones who made the mistake in misunderstanding his meaning. And we’re not the only ones:
More recently, guerrillas in Iraq have used the president’s words in a propaganda video narrated in English, according to the Reuters news agency. The narrator of the video says, “George W. Bush, you have asked us to ‘bring it on.’ And so help me, [we will ] like you never expected. Do you have another challenge?” The video then shows explosions around a U.S. military vehicle.
Wonderful.
Don’t you just love that? Someone on SKB’s site once said, “The bedpan of hubrus is about to get thrown in the fan of karma.”
How true. How sad.