he didn't MEAN it...

President Bush says he now sees that tough talk can have an "unintended consequence."

In the week after the September 11 attacks, Bush was asked if he wanted bin Laden, the terrorist leader blamed for the attacks, dead.

"I want justice," Bush said. "And there's an old poster out West, that I recall, that said, 'Wanted, Dead or Alive."'

Recalling that remark, Bush told the reporters: "I can remember getting back to the White House, and Laura said, 'Why did you do that for?' I said, 'Well, it was just an expression that came out. I didn't rehearse it.'

"I don't know if you'd call it a regret, but it certainly is a lesson that a president must be mindful of, that the words that you sometimes say. ... I speak plainly sometimes, but you've got to be mindful of the consequences of the words. So put that down. I don't know if you'd call that a confession, a regret, something."

i guess if you don't say anything that makes sense, then you don't have to worry about that...

for example:

Four years as president have changed [Bush]. "They say my hair is grayer. But I come from a pretty white-haired gene pool. At least half of it."

huh?