November 23, 2008
IT ISN'T THE WARS HE DID FIGHT THAT WILL HAUNT HIM:
Bush 'very pleased' with Iraq war outcome: Report (Times of India, 23 Nov 2008)
"I think the decision to remove Saddam Hussein was right," Bush told the Sunday Project programme of the private Asahi network. [...]Posted by Orrin Judd at November 23, 2008 11:58 AM"People have been able to take their troops out of Iraq because Iraq is becoming successful. I'm very pleased with what is taking place there now," he said, adding there still is "a lot of work" to be done.
"We are bringing troops home because of the success in Iraq. But Iraq is not yet completely safe.
"So there will be a US presence for a while there at the request of the Iraqi government," he said.
"The United States is willing to continue to help. Most countries there within a very broad coalition have come home but we want to help this government," he said without further elaborating.
