As Close As We'll Get to a True Admission on Iraq

Notice in the is report that House Republican Mike Rogers (R-MI) uses 2009 as a start date in Afghanistan not  to complain about the war's length, but instead to use the 3-year time period as an argument that we haven't waged Glorious War quite long enough.

That we really didn't start doing anything in Afghanistan until 2009 is ironic in many ways.  Prior to President Obama's refocused efforts onto the people responsible for 9/11, over 900 military personnel were killed fighting there.  That's quite a statement in the overall story of just how irresponsible the Bush administration was at waging the war on terror, and just how greatly Obama's change in that war has led to many successes such as killing bin Laden.  Rogers' statement, though, is about as close as we'll get to Republicans admitting Bush royally screwed us with Iraq.