A couple of hours ago, I logged on to see that John McCain had decried the waste of American lives in Iraq. He said it yesterday on Letterman, so of course I picked last night to go to bed early.

WASHINGTON – Republican presidential contender John McCain (news, bio, voting record), a staunch backer of the Iraq war but critic of how President Bush has waged it, said U.S. lives had been “wasted” in the four-year-old conflict. Democrats demand the Arizona senator apologize for the comment as Sen. Barack Obama (news, bio, voting record) did when the Democratic White House hopeful recently made the same observation.

“Americans are very frustrated, and they have every right to be,” McCain said Wednesday on CBS’ “Late Show With David Letterman.” “We’ve wasted a lot of our most precious treasure, which is American lives.” [Link]

Now I see that he regrets it. How sad that politics requires regret for telling it like it is. They’re doin’ the hokey pokey with the truth.