Yes, hes's "determined" alright:

"Our goal in Iraq is clear and unchanging. Our goal is victory," said Bush, speaking at a rally Thursday for embattled Republican congressman Don Sherwood in the town of La Plume, Pennsylvania.

"We are a nation at war, and we must do everything in our power to win that war," he said.

"We will not pull out our troops from Iraq before the terrorists are defeated. We will not pull out before Iraq can govern itself, sustain itself, and defend itself," he said.

The problem with this logic is that the "terrorists" are Iraqis, and the war is a civil war.

We cannot have a "victory" in an Iraqi civil war, not unless we choose sides. Sunnis? Shiites? Kurds? Whose victory in this civil war should we sanction?

Do they even want our help?

Yet the Bush Administration seems completely out of touch with reality:

Snow said it would be "absolutely catastrophic" for Iraq to become a launching pad for Islamic militants.

It already is. Islamic militants are running the country. The Iraqi "government" hiding behind American troops in a fortress within Baghdad can't even rule Baghdad.

"So there is no option here, and therefore, we will entertain no option other than to succeed and finish the job," he said.

In an interview with Time Magazine, Vice President Dick Cheney sounded a similar theme when asked whether the president would be looking for an exit strategy after the election.

"I know what the president thinks. I know what I think. And we're not looking for an exit strategy. We're looking for victory," he said.

This is what happens when chickenhawks take us into war. They leave it for others to clean up ... and others to die.

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