Wise words from Keith Olbermann

You can get the full transcript at AMERICAblog, but I found this to be the most powerful point:

This President must apologize to the troops — for having suggested, six weeks ago, that the chaos in Iraq, the death and the carnage, the slaughtered Iraqi civilians and the dead American service personnel, will, to history, quote "look like just a comma."

This President must apologize to the troops — because the intelligence he claims led us into Iraq proved to be undeniably and irredeemably wrong.

This President must apologize to the troops — for having laughed about the failure of that intelligence, at a banquet, while our troops were in harm's way.

This President must apologize to the troops — because the streets of Iraq were not strewn with flowers and its residents did not greet them as liberators.

This President must apologize to the troops — because his administration ran out of "plan" after barely two months.

This President must apologize to the troops — for getting 2,815 of them killed.

This President must apologize to the troops — for getting this country into a war without a clue.

And Mr. Bush owes us an apology… for this destructive and omnivorous presidency.

Bush better apologize the fuck out of this, too.

Take some time to read all of Olbermann's diatribe, because it's real, it's heartfelt, it's provocative, and it explains, with laserlike precision, how destructive and dysfunctional the Bush administration has been up to this point. And will continue to be, if we "stay the course."

Here's hoping apologies (the right ones) begin shortly after next Tuesday. And I say they should not only from Bush, but from the numbnuts in Congress who neglected to act as a check on the out-of-control executive branch.