Plastic Contrition in a Come to Jesus Moment

Last night when we should have had the opportunity to watch Keith Olbermann, we were forced to see the infamous war twins talk about their infamous war. They both looked incredibly smaller than they did three years ago when they opted to invade the country of Iraq. Some of the same old tattered language was used but by now it rang hauntingly hallow. They had nothing new to add to their old verbiage. They reminded me of two tired old cheerleaders still cheering after the game had been lost and the fans had gone home.

The only thing of note was their come to Jesus moment when they spoke of their mistakes. The American war twin said he regretted the, "Kind of tough talk, you know, that sent the wrong signal to people. "I learned some lessons about expressing myself maybe in a little more sophisticated manner."

He wishes he hadn’t sounded like an imbecilic cowboy-ish jerk. So everything about this war is okay except a couple of unsophisticated phrases?

He went on to say that the events of torture at Abu Ghraib weren’t at all beneficial. He said, "We've been paying for that for a long period of time.” He didn’t mention how long we will pay for what is going on in the rendition prisons around the world. He didn’t mention that he issued a signing statement that will allow him to use torture if he sees fit. His real regret is that there was someone at Abu Ghraib with a damned little camera. That’s the part he really hates.

So he used the moment last night to come to his plastic Jesus and he offered him his plastic contrition. I didn’t buy it and I expect the plastic Jesus didn’t either.