'Cause he didn't have a clue.

Now, I thought the US would leave if the Iraqis didn't want us. And the Iraqis don't want us. But GWB says the US is staying until "freedom" comes. I thought it was there!!

And democracy in Afghanistan? There's a puppet government in Kabul, the rest of the country ain't what you'd call on the way to democracy.

But then US conservatives seem to have their own language and world. Words don't match deeds, "freedom" means tortured friends and families, "democracy" means US troops moving at will, and "sovereignity" means having the US control all revenue. Filtering it through US controlled multi-national companies.

What a country!!

"We have come not to conquer, but to liberate people and we will stand with them until their freedom is secure,” Bush told several thousand troops in a hanger at MacDill Air Force Base, home of the United States Central Command.

“By helping the rise of democracy in Iraq and Afghanistan and throughout the world, you are giving people an alternative to bitterness and hatred, and that is essential to the peace of the world,” Bush said in a speech broadcast via satellite to troops in Iraq and Afghanistan and being carried on Armed Forces Radio and TV."

I like the "alternative to bitterness and hatred" part!!