LAT admits to churlishness

In an editorial today, the LAT misinterprets and mischaracterizes remarks made by President Bush to ABC's Charles Gibson in a recent interview. In the interview, Bush said he regretted that pre-war intelligence on Iraq was wrong about whether Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction. Rather than accept that at face value, the LAT tries to suggest that Bush really was saying he regretted attacking and invading Iraq. The LAT chastises Bush for saying in the interview that he can't now know what he would have decided in 2003 if he had known then that the intelligence was wrong.

Finally, the LAT admits it's churlish to ask Bush to confess that he made a mistake in 2003. Yes it is.