Reply #27: Translation: "Now that we've REALLY screwed up the situation in Iraq...

[Mithras61]

it will take years of continued military presence and unrepentant torture of innocents to subdue the Iraqi people."

Asshole.

"That, of course, is an objective. And that will be decided by future presidents and future governments of Iraq," said Bush, who will be president until January 2009.

I suspect that THAT is an objective he will not be able to fulfill, and likely the reason he's putting off the pull-out decision on future Presidents. He KNOWS he's toast and KNOWS he won't have to make that decision (not that he could anyway, but you know what I mean...).