Bush is already writing his history of Iraq, in a way that certainly seems to me to demostrate a callous disregard of the cost of his folly.
In an interview with Wolf Blitzer:
Quote:
BLITZER: Let's move on and talk a little bit about Iraq. Because this is a huge, huge issue, as you know, for the American public, a lot of concern that perhaps they are on the verge of a civil war, if not already a civil war…. We see these horrible bodies showing up, tortured, mutilation. The Shia and the Sunni, the Iranians apparently having a negative role. Of course, al Qaeda in Iraq is still operating.
BUSH: Yes, you see — you see it on TV, and that's the power of an enemy that is willing to kill innocent people. But there's also an unbelievable will and resiliency by the Iraqi people…. Admittedly, it seems like a decade ago. I like to tell people when the final history is written on Iraq, it will look like just a comma because there is — my point is, there's a strong will for democracy
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SO...
- more than 2,700 Americans killed
- more than 20,000 Americans wounded
- nearly 50,000 Iraqi civilians killed
- more than 100,000 Iraqi civilians displaced
- ongoing sectarian violence with no end in sight
- a new generation of Islamic jihadists
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Just a comma in history????