The internal logical dissonance of the Democrats’ anti-war stance is going to continue producing moments like this; John F. Kerry had his “misunderstood joke,” and now Barack Obama has a “slip of the tongue:” Obama apologies for ‘wasted’ comment.

NASHUA, N.H. —Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama is apologizing for saying the lives of the more than 3,000 U.S. troops killed in the Iraq war were “wasted.”

During his first campaign trip this weekend, the Illinois senator told a crowd in Iowa: “We now have spent $400 billion and have seen over 3,000 lives of the bravest young Americans wasted.”

He immediately apologized on Sunday, saying the remark was “a slip of the tongue.”

During an appearance Monday in Nashua, N.H., he apologized again, telling reporters he meant to criticize the civilian leadership of the war, not those serving in the military.

“Even as I said it, I realized I had misspoken,” Obama said. “It is not at all what I intended to say, and I would absolutely apologize if any (military families) felt that in some ways it had diminished the enormous courage and sacrifice that they’d shown.”

He didn’t mean to say it.

We’re supposed to believe that a candidate for president is going around the country giving speeches completely off the cuff. Improvising as he goes. And just happens to end up insulting the military.

Uh huh.

More Democrat cognitive dissonance at Hot Air, where they have video of John Murtha confidently asserting that as soon as the US leaves, the Iraqis will magically get rid of Al Qaeda.