Remorse

[Stahlke, Herbert F.W.]

Just now on MSNBC, Rosiland Jordan, an NBC White House reporter, said that Pres. Bush expressed remorse at the mosque bombings in Iraq.  Has the meaning of "remorse" been changing, or did she just slip?  One only expresses remorse of one's own acts that one regrets.  She wasn't saying that Bush was claiming responsibility for the bombings, and I would have expected a noun like "sorrow".  "Compassion" or "pity" is an archaic sense.  Is it coming back or was this just odd?

Herb