Bush as Defeatist

In 1999, when GW was governor of Texas, he criticized President Clinton for not setting a timetable for exiting Kosovo:

George W. Bush, 4/9/99, Houston Chronicle:

“Victory means exit strategy, and it’s important for the president to explain to us what the exit strategy is.”

Followed by this:

George W. Bush, 6/5/99, Scripps Howard/Seattle Post-Intelligencer:

“I think it’s also important for the president to lay out a timetable as to how long they will be involved and when they will be withdrawn.”

Timetables? What a Defeatocrat.

...of course there's this yesterday:

“Setting a deadline for withdrawal is setting a date for failure, and that would be irresponsible,” he said. The president warned that a deadline “would dictate the terms on which the remaining commanders and troops could engage the enemy.” “This is a prescription for chaos and confusion, and we must not impose it on our troops,” Bush said.

Frankly, the date for failure is already past. Bush administration incompetence has already created "chaos and confusion" in Iraq. We should not have our soldiers as referees in a 1300-year old religious civil war fought between groups of crazy animals.

Wasn't the message of the last election that the American people wanted out of Iraq?