Today is the Day of Apologies.  President Bush is sorry about the economic crisis, but his biggest regret is the flawed intelligence that led to the Iraq war:

"The biggest regret of all the presidency has to have been the intelligence failure in Iraq. A lot of people put their reputations on the line and said the weapons of mass destruction is a reason to remove Saddam Hussein," Bush said.

A lot of people had a lot more than their reputations on the line.  More than a million casualties later “Sorry” just doesn’t cut it.  Too little, too late - he can’t bring those lives back…

Lets’ leave politics, and turn to other mistakes that can still be corrected.

Microsoft apologizes for Cashback glitches – reports CNET News.  Their s Live Search Cashback site failed spectacularly on Black Friday.  Nowhere felt customers more cheated than at Hewlett-Packard’s hopping site: HP and Microsoft together promised 40% discounts.  People spent hours hitting refreshing their browsers – after all, the promised discounts could have easily amounted to $500 and more.   Some customers who actually got through only received 3% cash-back, instead of the promised 40%.

Microsoft apologized:

"We deeply regret customer inconvenience with respect to the outage"

Again, too little, too late.  But, unlike Bush, Microsoft and HP can actually do something about it. Don’t just apologize – deliver.  Black Friday is followed by Cyber Monday, there is talk about Mobile Tuesday -  for all I care they can call it Regret Wednesday, Sorry Thursday,  Live (Sometimes) Friday, but declare a day of online shopping with 40% off when HP and Microsoft jointly deliver on their promise.  That’s the only real apology.