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Shortly before Bush landed on an aircraft carrier with a sign reading “Mission Accomplished,” Makiya and several expatriate friends from London got into a car at the Iraqi border and drove to Baghdad. It was the first time Makiya had visited his childhood home since he left the city in 1967 to attend MIT, and he was shocked...
...completing the mission If you make a mistake, and then you justify staying there on the basis that you have to finish the job, what you're doing is compounding the mistake. You're making the mistake over and over again. We are making the mistake of staying in Iraq every day, to the detriment of our troops, to the detriment of our military, to the detriment of our economy, and especially to the detriment of our national security. On all counts, this anniversary is a reminder on just what a terrible mistake this...
...Qaeda and Osama bin Laden This mission was supposed to be originally going after al-Qaeda. And this is a diversion. Osama bin Laden said a couple of years ago in a speech that his strategy was to bankrupt America, that's how they would defeat us, and he's using Iraq for that very purpose. We're playing straight into their hands...
...completing the mission I immediately have to think about the people that we've lost here, and the friends that I've lost here, and what that means. These are some of the best people you could ever hope to meet, people who I know would have done absolutely incredible things. And I'll think about them every day for the rest of my life. In fact, I had one friend who was killed a month before he was supposed to go home to get married. How do you put a price tag on that level of sacrifice...
...came away from my very long interviews with them being very sympathetic to the position that they had been put in. They had been sent over to Afghanistan and Iraq with very little cultural training, very little understanding of what their mission was, very little understanding of how and why they should do what they did. And they were pushed into doing things that, if you had asked them back home, they never would have done, or never would have wanted to see. So they come...