Donald Rumsfeld recently gave the most straightforward apology to the Iraqi people for the prison abuses. Do you think he reads this blog? His apology is almost exactly like what I suggested George Bush should say:

Me: “To the Iraqi people, I am sorry for what my country has done to you.”

Rumsfeld: “To those Iraqis who were mistreated by US forces, I offer my deepest apology.”

Way to go, Rummy. The Christian Science Monitor had this to say:

Friday's hearing gave something that the world has been waiting for, which is a straightforward, flat-out apology. What Donald Rumsfeld said was, "I feel terrible by what happened to Iraqi detainees. They're human beings. They were in US custody. Our country has an obligation to treat them right. We didn't do that. That was wrong. To those Iraqis who were mistreated by US forces, I offer my deepest apology."