George Bush actually said...

I didn't want war. To assume I wanted war is just -- is just flat wrong.

If I didn't believe we could succeed, I wouldn't be there. I wouldn't put those kids there.

That, of course, is an objective. And that will be decided by future presidents and future governments of Iraq.

Others look at the violence they see each night on their television screens and they wonder how I can remain so optimistic about the prospec...