Absolution .. leads to resolution ?

So the man trigger-happy Dick felled, who was within a hair's breadth of losing his wits (harry witnearlygone) got on the horn today and said,

"accidents do and will happen" and apologized for the trouble the incident had caused the vice president.

"My family and I are deeply sorry for everything Vice President Cheney and his family have had to deal with," Whittington said, his voice a bit raspy but strong

Now, if only trigger-happy Dick and his grenade-flinging buddy Rummy can get the Iraqi women and children who were blown to smithreens, and the American military personnel (and their families) who went to fight and put themselves in danger for a cause that they were lied about to say that. "Mistakes do happen, just because there are no weapons of mass destruction or that there was no connection between Atta and Saddam does not mean that we have to jump all over the Vice-President. Accidents do and will happen."

Now, if only trigger-happy Dick could get the United Nations to say, "That's Ok mate, sure, we believed you when you said there are mobile trucks bearing bioterrorism agents, but that's ok, accidents do and will happen."

Now, if only trigger-happy Dick could get CIA agents to say, " that's Ok, while we don't expect to have our identities revealed considering the dangerous job we are doing, but accidents do and will happen."

You get the point. The reason all these folks might not absolve the Veep is because not all of them are multi-millionaire buddies he hangs out with.