[QUOTE=Maureen]
Admitting “I was wrong” is on a par with admitting you shot your neighbor’s wife and had sex with his dog.
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Now that’s wrong! Admitting it, I mean. Make them prove it. Let me get that dog up on the witness stand, I’ll make a fool of her. (I would never have sex with a male dog–what do you think I am, a queer?)
[QUOTE=Maureen]
Admitting “I was wrong” is on a par with admitting you shot your neighbor’s wife and had sex with his dog.
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Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 
[QUOTE=black rabbit]
The thread linked in that one is even better:
http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=169260
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I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.
To throw the apologists a bone, they probably weren’t expecting the appalling levels of incompetence shown by the U.S. in the period after the seizing of Baghdad.