Look how low the bar has now gotten. This is from the President’s May 2, 2007 address to the Associated General Contractors of America [1]:
…”But slowly but surely, the truth will be known. Either we’ll succeed, or we won’t succeed. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not, no violence. There are parts of our own country that have got a certain level of violence to it. But success is a level of violence where the people feel comfortable about living their daily lives. And that’s what we’re trying to achieve.
So therefore, a “good” result is the same thing as a less bad result. If we can just get the violence down to the level we see in American inner cities, we’ll declare victory (again) . . . Compare this latest justification to some of the Administration’s other “justifications.” [2]
Where did all of the current violence come from? I don’t hear Bush blaming any of the current violence on Saddam Hussein. And for good reason.
And I don’t see anything about bringing the American military comepletely back home during any time frame. I don’t see any acknowledgement that the U.S. has built 14 permanent bases in Iraq. [3] I don’t see any acknowledgment that we don’t ever intent to pull our military out of Iraq.
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