President Bush Sees Revolutionary and Iraq War Similarities
Jul 5, 2007, 08:23
Nearly 80 percent of Americans younger than twelve believe Saddam Hussein planned the 9/11 attacks.
MARTINSBURG, W.V. – In a Fourth of July speech at a West Virginia Air National Guard base, President George W. Bush sought to strengthen American patriotic resolve by comparing the United States War of Independence with the invasion of Iraq.
“We fought the British over here so we wouldn’t have to follow them home and fight them over there,” said the president, “and we are fighting now as we did then because we don’t want to have another war over here.”
Calling today’s US troops the “successors” to Revolutionary War soldiers, Mr. Bush proceeded to draw comparisons between our founding fathers’ declaration of independence from Great Britain and his famous “Mission Accomplished” declaration of victory in Iraq more than four years ago.
“Just as the majority of casualties in the War for Independence took place after independence was declared,” said the president, “so have we suffered the greatest losses after declaring we won the war in Iraq.
President Bush, right, in happier times.
“Nevertheless, I will not take back that declaration of victory as my opponents want me to,” the president continued. “We must never forget that it took seven years to win the war against England after we declared it. That means we’re still ahead of schedule in Iraq. That’s the kind of good news the media chooses to ignore.”
The president was also eager to point out that the number of casualties in Iraq, “thirty-six hundred or something,” is “statistically lower” than American losses during the revolutionary war, 4,435, "even after adjusting for height and inflation."
In other news, Albert Gore III, son of former president elect Albert Gore II, denies charges that he was driving one hundred miles per hour on the San Diego Freeway when he was pulled over about 2:15 a.m. yesterday. Speaking through a family spokesman, Mr. Gore III claimed he was going only half that fast because the car he was driving, a Toyota Prius, is a hybrid vehicle.
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