An Unhappy New Year Thus Far in Iraq

An Unhappy New YearThus Far in Iraq

You owe us, Bush says

Tim Dunlop

In amongst admitting that maybe they’d made a few mistakes in Iraq, President Bush also dropped this assessment of his country’s efforts in Iraq: "(The) Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude." (...) I am proud of the efforts we did. We liberated that country from a tyrant. I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude, and I believe most Iraqis express that. I mean, the people understand that we’ve endured great sacrifice to help them. That’s the problem here in America. They wonder whether or not there is a gratitude level that’s significant enough in Iraq....

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