Sorry seems to be the hardest word.

It's so obvious, at this point, that the Bush administration has seriously fucked up. They've ruined America's good name, they've stretched thin the goodwill that most of the world felt toward us when Clinton was in office, and they've made the Middle East a safer place for al Qaeda and terrorism. Many would still claim that George W Bush is too stupid to know any better; I say to you that this is not true. I think the stupid thing is an act, at least partially; at the zenith of bad taste, he has actually begun to make fun of himself for being stupid, something that I think is both completely inappropriate as our elected leader and also a very telling clue that he is much more sly than he appears. He's making the 'stupid' image work for him, because when you're stupid, you can get away with a lot more.

So, he knows better. And even though he's stupid, many people in America, Republicans and Democrats alike, have a bad taste in their mouths because of his policies. We know it, and he knows it--so why can't he say he's sorry?

I want to know why it's so fashionable nowadays to let people off of the hook when they've done something illegal or heinous. Why can people go in front of our judicial system, on camera, and tell grievous lies about things that they've done--and get away with it? Why can the Bush administration lie over and over and over again, and nobody does anything about it? George W Bush has gotten up on camera and told the nation outright lies that have been crucial to his policymaking--for example, that there was a connection between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda, that Saddam was gearing up to make nuclear weapons, and that there were, in fact, weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. These fallacies were the basis for us going to war in Iraq, and they are all completely false. Not only that, but I believe that there is enough testimony by experts and former members of the administration to show that Bush was attempting to piece together a picture of Iraq as our enemy, knowingly using misleading and false information. Why isn't President Bush being held accountable for this?

I don't know the legal system well enough to know if he can be impeached or arrested for what he's done. I would hope so; Bill Clinton, one of our greatest presidents, was impeached because he lied about a blowjob so his wife wouldn't know. You would think that someone like Bush, who has taken our great nation and ruined both its economy and its reputation, would be able to legally be held accountable for, I don't know, disregarding many of the laws of our country. Even if that's not possible, even if there isn't enough evidence or witnesses, I want George W. Bush to acknowledge that we know what he did, that it was wrong for him to do, and even if he doesn't mean it, I want him to say he's sorry.

In fact, that's what I want all of the scandalicious members of our government to do. I want them to come forward, cut the bullshit excuses, and say that they're sorry, even if they aren't. That's what we, as the Americans who gave them their jobs in the first place, deserve. The current administration has forgotten the most important part of democracy: they work for us. They are in their offices to serve our public interest. Acts of revolution and rebellion are an extremely common thread throughout humanity (see Wikipedia's list of revolutions and rebellions throughout history, which is not even a complete list), and they're not relegated to third world countries or distant history. This administration has to realize that, after a certain point, we aren't going to take this anymore. So they should step up and apologize, and take what they have coming to them like men.

Bernie Taupin's lyrics are sadly appropriate:

It's sad, so sad

It's a sad, sad situation

And it's getting more and more absurd

It's sad, so sad

Why can't we talk it over

Oh it seems to me that sorry seems to be the hardest word.