posted on Jul, 8 2012 @ 04:16 PM
I will never apologize for the United States — I don't care what the facts are... I'm not an apologize-for-America kind of guy. George HW Bush
Statement as Vice-president, during a presidential campaign function (2 Aug 1988), commenting on the Navy warship USS Vincennes having shot down
Iran Air Flight 655 in a commercial air corridor on July 3, killing 290 civilians, as quoted in "Perspectives", the quote of the week section of
Newsweek (15 August 1988) p. 15; also quoted in "Rally Round the Flag, Boys" by Michael Kingsley in TIME magazine (12 September 1988)