Bush admitted the Mission Accomplished banner on the aircraft carrier was `a mistake.' But that apart this was a speech inspired by Edith Piaf's Je Ne Regretted Rien hit. Even when it came to Hurricane Katrina he came out fighting. `Don't tell me the Federal response was slow,' he snapped.

The usual political apology consists for not saying sorry for what you said, but rather saying sorry that it offended the listeners.