Apologize?

What up with this? Tom Friedman, the New York Times foreign relations columnist writes today:

"I want to wake up and read that Dick Cheney has apologized to the U.N. and all our allies for being wrong about W.M.D. in Iraq..."

I'm sure Mr. Friedman realizes that everyone, including the French, Russians, Germans AND the U.N. thought he had stockpiles of WMD's. Why then write this? What do we have to apologize for? Liberating 24 million Iraqis?

Actually, the only mistake was the use of one word - "stockpiles". Everyone knows he had them. Everyone knows he used them. Everyone knows he had the capability to rapidly manufacture them. Everyone even thought he had "stockpiles"...even Saddam.