Success By What Measure?

President Moron speaks again.

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. Watch it:

If this isn't the most convoluted assessment of things I have ever heard, I don't know what is. We unleashed a pack of crazies in Iraq and despite a surge in our troop levels, the violence hasn't subsided and has increased in many places. What, exactly, is the measure of success? No more Iraqis left to kill?

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