George Bush actually said...

"History appears poised to confirm what most Americans today have decided: that the decision to invade Iraq was a serious strategic blunder."

"If anything, the National Press Corps was probably too deferential to the White House and to the administration in regard to the most important decision facing the nation during my years in Washington..."

"Major combat operations in Iraq have ended."

"The presidency of George W. Bush veered terribly off course, and the administration was guilty of a, in his words, excessive embrace of the permanent campaign approach to governance."