George W. Bush is an asshole. He continues to use rhetoric that makes it nearly impossible to spin our failure in Iraq as anything less than a great victory for the jihadists.

Listen, there are differences of opinion about the way forward; I understand that. Some Americans want us to withdraw our troops so that we can escape the violence. I recognize their good intentions, but their position is wrong. Withdrawing our troops would make the world more dangerous, and make America less safe. To leave Iraq now would be to repeat the costly mistakes of the past that led to the attacks of September the 11th, 2001. The terrorists saw our response to the hostage crisis in Iran, the bombings in the Marine barracks in Lebanon, the first World Trade Center attack, the killing of American soldiers in Somalia, the destruction of two U.S. embassies in Africa, and the attack on the USS Cole. The terrorists concluded that we lacked the courage and character to defend ourselves, and so they attacked us.

Now the terrorists are testing our will and resolve in Iraq. If we fail that test, the consequences for the safety and security of the American people would be enormous. Our withdrawal from Iraq would allow the terrorists to claim an historic victory over the United States. It would leave our enemies emboldened and allow men like Zarqawi and bin Laden to dominate the Middle East and launch more attacks on America and other free nations. The battle lines are drawn, and there is no middle ground: either we defeat the terrorists and help the Iraqis build a working democracy, or the terrorists will impose their dark ideology on the Iraqi people and make that country a source of terror and instability to come for decades.

The only way the terrorists can win is if we lose our nerve and abandon the mission. For the security of the American people, that’s not going to happen on my watch. We’ll do our duty. We’ll defeat our enemies in Iraq and other fronts in the war on terror. We’ll lay the foundation of peace for our children and grandchildren.

Listen Bush: you have bankrupted the country. You have bankrupted the country and yet you still continue to pursue tax cuts. You have very little support for staying in Iraq and pretty soon Congress is going to pull the plug on your financing. And then when we pull out of Iraq there will be no way to spin it other than as “an historic victory over the United States.”

We saw how the jihadists reacted to their historic victory over the Soviet Union. It emboldened them and convinced them that Allah was on their side.

What you should be doing is defining down success. You should stop claiming that jihadists are defeating us and start claiming that the Iraqis simply don’t want us there. It’s actually closer to the truth than the bullshit you are spreading. Using this rhetoric makes your defeat, our defeat, worse than it has to be.

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