Let me get this straight, the “lessons of 9/11″ were that “oceans cannot protect us” so we “fight them there so they don’t fight us here”, i.e. to prevent terrorist attacks. Now Bush is saying not to measure success in Iraq by security from terrorist attacks. What kind of metric can we use to show we are preventing attacks at home other than by subduing terrorists there? Bugger.
Think Progress
Bush: If You Judge My Iraq Strategy By The Number Of Violent Attacks, The Terrorists Win »
In an interview last night on PBS, President Bush complained that people who measure progress in Iraq by how many car bombs and suicide attacks occur are giving a “huge victory” to the enemy by making it more difficult for him to promote the war to the American public.
“If the standard of success is no car bombings or suicide bombings,” Bush said, “we have just handed those who commit suicide bombings a huge victory.” He repeated later that people who “judge the administration’s [escalation] plan” based on such acts of violence “have just given Al Qaida or any other extremist a significant victories [sic].”
Bush said that these images of brutal violence on television are “one of the problems I face in trying to convince the American people” that the war is worthwhile.
United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and Google Earth
Genocide emergency: Darfur
In 2004 the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum declared a genocide emergency for Darfur, Sudan. To date about 2,500,000 civilians, targeted because of their ethnic or racial identity, have been driven from their homes, more than 300,000 people killed, and more than 1,600 villages destroyed by Sudanese government soldiers and government-backed militias, known as the “Janjaweed.” More than 200,000 Sudanese are refugees in neighboring Chad. The crisis continues as thousands more die each month from the effects of inadequate food, water, health care, and shelter in a harsh desert environment. Learn more about Darfur.
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April 25th, 2007 by 
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