So did most listeners then.
Including, I suspect, you and others here before somebody pointed out that little adjustment to the comparison.
Even if you're right, he knew damn well how it would be taken by people who didn't know the facts.
...Look, we have spent more money -- we spend more money in three weeks on combat in Iraq than we spent on the entirety of the last seven years that we have been in Afghanistan building that country.
...Let me say that again. Three weeks in Iraq; seven years, seven years or six-and-a-half years in Afghanistan. Now, that's number one.
...Barack Obama was saying we need more troops there. Again, we spend in three weeks on combat missions in Iraq, more than we spent in the entire time we have been in Afghanistan. That will change in a Barack Obama administration.
Pretty damn loosely worded if you ask me, particularly after we've been lectured for years on the "impressions" given in Bush speeches even if they aren't actually lies.