Bush on Iraq

From a speech today:

Either we'll succeed, or we won't succeed [Ed. Note – Well, duh]. And the definition of success as I described is sectarian violence down. Success is not, no violence. There are parts of our own country that have got a certain level of violence to it. But success is a level of violence where the people feel comfortable about living their daily lives. And that's what we're trying to achieve.

Am I too understand that our new goal is the drive violence down to a more "comfortable" inner-city Detroit level? He cannot be serious.

UPDATE: I did not get to this until just now because I can never read Bush’s speeches in one sitting. As Lo said in comments, you have to reread passages repeatedly to figure out what marble mouth is trying to say. Anyway, Bush has dropped The Decider moniker for a manlier nom de guerre; one so scorn-worthy, the Onion could hardly have done better.

We put in more troops to get to a position where we can be in some other place. The question is, who ought to make that decision? The Congress or the commanders? And as you know, my position is clear -- I'm the commander guy [emphasis mine].

That is so brilliant; the glorious preposterousness of it is quite simply overwhelming. I can almost see him delivering that line, hands on hips, as though he were General Macarthur landing on the shores of the Philippines. The Commander Guy – absolute fucking genius...