Yahoo! News - Bush Takes Responsibility for Iraq Claim: "'I take personal responsibility for everything I say, absolutely,' the president said at a White House news conference. Bush has been seeking to quell a controversy over a controversial claim that has dogged his administration for weeks."

Now why did that take so long? I am sorry, but as Streak so ably notes, you don't get character points for taking this long to accept responsibility for what you say. If you do that immediately, you do, if you wait weeks for people to stop asking you while you blame everyone else around you and claim it was right anyway, then you get a poor character grade.