March 6, 2003:

Q What can you say tonight, sir, to the sons and the daughters of the Americans who served in Vietnam to assure them that you will not lead this country down a similar path in Iraq?

THE PRESIDENT: That’s a great question. Our mission is clear in Iraq. Should we have to go in, our mission is very clear: disarmament. . . it’s very clear what we intend to do. And our mission won’t change. Our mission is precisely what I just stated.

October 20, 2006:

Bush said in an Associated Press interview, “Our goal has not changed. Our goal is a country that can defend, sustain and govern itself, a country that which will serve as an ally in this war. Our tactics are adjusting.“

Many thanks to A Tiny Revolution for the spadework on this one. (Many thanks to Nexis research service for helping check the quotes.)

Additional troops are a bad idea. It will accomplish nothing positive and create more US casualties. The time has come for the US to withdraw from Iraq, except for a large airbase in western Iraq. There will be future military needs in the mideast since this is only the beginning of WWIII. 

The US has lost all wars since WWII. Unfortunately the media through video controls our strategy. We were afraid to offend China by finishing in Korea. Now we have a 55yr. occupation. In Vietnam, Kennedy-Johnson war, we should never have been there. The French showed us why? The same goes for the mideast. Desert Storm was another joke, our side killed more of our troops than they did. The US is no longer capable of winning a non-traditional ground war and is afraid to use its Air Force.

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