"It is true that much of the intelligence turned out to be wrong. As president I am responsible for the decision to go into Iraq," Bush told a foreign policy forum on the eve of elections to establish Iraq's first permanent, democratically elected government.

I always thought that "responsibility" carried an implicit threat of some punisment for mis- or mal- or non-feasance. Apparently not.

Like Nixon, who claimed to be "..responsible but not guilty..", I suspect that what's really meant is "guilty, but irresponsible."