‘Make no mistake about it, we are at war’ - George Bush
Bush seems to have finally realised why so many American troops are dying in Iraq, seems that rather than spreading democracy through peace and love as he thought he was, he had actually gone to war. It has only taken the deaths of another 14 marines killed by a roadside bomb - bringing the total American troop deaths in Iraq to around 1820 - to open his eyes.
However, what Bush of course fails to realise as the only ones who made the ‘mistake’ of thinking that it would not be a war was himself and his collection of bloodthirsty neocons.
Mr Bush I refer you to one of the greatest lovers of war, and greatest war leaders (for all his faults as a politician and human being) Sir Winston Churchill:
Never, never, never believe any war will be smooth and easy, or that anyone who embarks on the strange voyage can measure the tides and hurricanes he will encounter. The statesman who yields to war fever must realize that once the signal is given, he is no longer the master of policy but the slave of unforeseeable and uncontrollable events.
I think that sums up the war in Iraq perfectly, and most of the other ‘quick’ wars that America have embarked on.