Election 2008: Apology Watch #1

And so it begins with Barak Obama:

On Sunday Sen. Barack Obama, speaking at Iowa State University,
made this jaw-dropping statement:
We ended up launching a war that should
have never been authorized, and should have never been waged, and to which we
now have spent $400 billion, and have seen over 3,000 lives
of the bravest young Americans wasted.

Wasted! Hard to believe anyone would say such a thing, but there it is on video.

The Chicago Sun-Times reports Obama quickly fired up the
nuance machine:
Obama, in an interview with the Des Moines Register right
afterward, told the paper, ''I was actually upset with myself when I said that,
because I never use that term,'' he said. ''Their sacrifices are never wasted. .
. . What I meant to say was those sacrifices have not been honored by the same
attention to strategy, diplomacy and honesty on the part of civilian leadership
that would give them a clear mission."

Wished I started this with Joe Biden. Thanks to James Taranto.