From last night’s joint press conference with British Prime Minister Tony Blair:

Listen, I want our troops out, don’t get me wrong . . . but it’s vital that we do the job. A loss in Iraq would make this world an incredibly dangerous place.

The world is a dangerous place. Bush just doesn’t get it. The fight in Iraq has nothing to do with the war on terror or the hunt for Osama. Fighting in Iraq is not making America safer. We are making enemies in every region of the globe, we are alienating our strategic and diplomatic allies and we are losing thousands of brave American lives.

Bush also addressed his pompous missteps that directly led to the deaths of many innocent American troops. His answer:

President Bush admitted Thursday he regrets “tough talk” like telling Iraqi insurgents to “bring it on” and saying he wanted Osama Bin Laden “Dead or Alive.”

“I learned a lesson about expressing myself in a more sophisticated manner,” Bush said. “In certain parts of the world, it was misinterpreted, so I learned from that.”

Answering a question, Bush listed the “bring it on” comment from July 2003 and “Wanted Dead or Alive,” as well as the Abu Ghraib prison scandal, as mistakes made along the way since the 2003 invasion.

The President has credited First Lady Laura Bush with urging him to lose the cowboy talk.

Earth to Bush!