Tony Bennett has an impressive resume: 15-time Grammy Award winner, Kennedy Center Honoree, Japanese eyewear spokesperson. He might now get to add “investigative journalist” to that list. The 85-year-old crooner was on the Howard Stern Show Monday, where he revealed that while sitting next to George W. Bush during the Kennedy Center Honors in 2005, the president admitted to him that he regretted going to war in Iraq. “He told me personally that night,” Bennett said, “‘I think I made a mistake.’” Interesting, we always thought celebrities conducted lighthearted small talk during those types of functions.

Since launching combat operations in Iraq in 2003, George W. Bush has never even hinted that the war was a mistake. The bulk of his memoir is about deciding to invade Iraq and sticking to that decision. (Remember, he's a decider!) So did he really undo two terms of unwavering commitment to the war in a conversation with Tony Bennett? A spokesperson for Bush told NBC News, “This account is flatly wrong … President Bush never said that to Tony Bennett or anyone else.” Tony Bennett, a World War II veteran, is outspoken against the war in Iraq. In the same interview, he told Stern, “But who are the terrorists? Are we the terrorists or are they the terrorists? Two wrongs don’t make a right.” Concerning 9/11, he believes U.S. foreign policy is as culpable as the terrorists themselves. “They flew the plane in, but we caused it,” he said, “Because we were bombing them and they told us to stop.” (Update: Bennett has since apologized for his 9/11 remark.) Could Bennett, who's so vehemently opposed to the war, have had selective hearing when he thought George W. Bush told him it was “a mistake?” Possibly. Considering Bush is already denying the remarks, it will be his word against Bennett's.