What Do They Mean, Mistakes Were Made?

Have you noticed how many "mistakes" have been owned up to lately? It started with Rush owning up to his drug dependency and the followers . . . "bought that." Our administration has admitted that "mistakes" have been made in the Iraqi War and now we have a "new strategy." And we are to accept this, after four years of catastrophe without direction or strategy . . . Then we have had a plethera of "leaks" that have revealed other "mistakes." Remember hearing about the warrantless wiretapping? What became of the issue? Who leaked this information, became the focus, rather than the fact that wiretapping was happening outside of the legal parameters. So, if it's outside the legal criteria, why isn't it called "illegal" and why isn't that the focus, rather than the source of the "leak?" Of late, we now hear that the FBI has "overstepped" the bounds of legal spying on innocent citizens, as defined by the Patriot Act. Now, if the FBI doesn't know the difference between enemy combatants and innocent citizens, what good is this agency? And if the FBI doesn't know how to stay within the laws of the Patriot Act, how can they bring others to justice by those same laws? And just who holds the FBI in account? Why is this agency allowed to police itself, when there is obviously a lack of "understanding" or respect, pertaining to the laws that govern this sort of spy activity? What's up with this new firing of federal attorneys? Who knows . . . but the President and the Attorney General are going to cover each other and as usual for the conservatives, attempt change the focus to former President Clinton. You'd think, by now, somebody in this entire vast administration could at least come up with something more credible and less juvenile. What amazes me, is the fact that all of these entities do what they do, do what they want to do, and then just "step up to the plate" and say, I/We did it and we admit the error. "Mistakes have been made." Well, how would that work if I, a US citizen tried that after wreaking even 1/10 of the havoc?

Let's consider, for a moment . . . it's tax season. What if I filed my 1040, creatively? Then, when caught, said, "Yes I did it, but there should be no penalty . . . as I openly admitted this." Just what do you think would happen? I read about a woman that happens to live in a state in which medical marijuana is legal, but the feds are overriding the state laws and maintaining their power in the situation. Now, she is sick, very sick, admitted she needed the medical marijuana, and she doesn't have the same privilege that Rush has enjoyed. Why not?

I happen to live in an area that has many NO TRESPASSING signs posted. I would be breaking the law if I crossed the fences where those signs are posted, so why is the FBI exempt?

I don't even have an example to compare to the Iraq War. I just can't imagine any situation that compares with putting young people in harm's way and they saying "OOPS, you're going to keep doing the same thing, while we say we are trying something else . . ."

A fool's wrath is presently known: but a prudent man covereth shame.