Bush is very pleased with the outcome of the Iraq war/occupation.
Which part is he pleased with? Let's summarize just a few points:
- The original pretext for the war, Iraqi WMD, never existed.
- The nuclear bomb over Boise, never existed but the outing of an agent's indentitiy over the issue did and Bush was in the center of it.
- The Paul Bremmer - Bush inspired mishandling of the war's aftermath led to an ongoing insurgency and civil war causing millions of refugee Iraqis and untold numbers of Iraqi deaths. The final outcome is a state that is for all purposes completely segregated where Shiite and Sunni live in separate areas risking death if they intrude on one another. Since the war, suicide bombings are now a regular part of life in Iraq.
- Abu Ghraib and the reintroduction of torture as an American tradition. This and the war itself leads to the complete disregard for America in the world's eyes.
- Almost 5,000 American soldiers killed in action and tens of thousands injured in ways that defy the limits of suffering.
George Bush is flailing. He is desperately seeking to resurrect his miserably failed presidency and to create for himself a sense of achievement in his administration, a legacy. He's not going to get it, history will not be re-written. Simply because he gets to speak through a huge megaphone, this does not mean that he is a president of substance.
Yahoo: Bush 'very pleased' with Iraq war outcome: report
US President George W. Bush believes the Iraq war was a success and is "very pleased" with what is happening there, he said in a pre-recorded interview broadcast on a Japanese television network Sunday.
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