"Bring 'em on!" taunted chickenhawk Bush, whose only war experience was bombing missions over Texas while his poorer peers were in the quagmire called Vietnam.
Well every terrorist on the globe took up his challenge and sent over 4,000 US troops to their graves.
Bush told the Lede this week that he regrets the cowboy rhetoric: "I'm sorry I swaggered and blustered and drawled my way to being the worst president ever and the probable cause of the most dead US soldiers since I dodged the war in Vietnam.
"Do I regret sending those gunslingers to Boothill? Hell, no! I plugged hundreds of thousands of Iraqi desperadoes.
"I got more notches on my belt than Clinton had women!"
