Asked whether anyone would be held accountable for a strike on an elementary school that killed more than 100 children, Grandpa Pudding Brains said no, called it “a strange question,” and shrugged: “Mistakes are made.”
The children were killed in the active voice. The excuse arrived in passive voice.
Nixon and his spokesweasel Ziegler tried this bullshit, re: Watergate.
Tricky Dick found out that the cover-up is worse than the crime... his underlings discovered they weren't immune to consequences, after all.
May History rhyme again. and let it include the Enablers, this time.
"Why are you even asking my royal person about dead children?"