The public has long since exhausted our jabs, sneers, and disgust at the speech President Bush famously made on the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln. Today, the White House finally expresses regret.

But Dana Perino, the White House press secretary, is just now saying that the Bush administration has “certainly paid a price for not being more specific on that banner”.

Have you really paid the price, Ms. Perino? Nearly five years have passed since Bush made that speech and the White House is just now marking its error. The mission is far from accomplished… soldiers lives confirm this.

Now in its sixth year, the war in Iraq has claimed the lives of at least 4,061 members of the U.S. military. Only the Vietnam War (August 1964 to January 1973), the war in Afghanistan (October 2001 to present) and the Revolutionary War (July 1776 to April 1783) have engaged America longer.

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