Marking 5 Years, Bush Insists U.S. Must Win in Iraq

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/20/world/middleeast/20prexy.html?_r=1&ref=todayspaper&oref=slogin
---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 11:20 AMSubject: Marking 5 Years, Bush Insists U.S. Must Win in IraqTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor:
It is no longer surprising to hear president Bush crowing over "successes" in Iraq. His handlers have raised lowered expectations to an artform. Those of us out here in the reality-based community note that more Iraqis lack the simple necessities of life than under Saddam Hussein. Instead of building a free and peaceful Iraq, we are institutionalizing an Iraq run by armed sects, in which our indefinite presence is required to limit the violence. President Bush gives us too much talk of "successes". The American people are less and less interested in "the decider" and increasingly interested in his successor.
Barry Levine
1142 Brown Ave
Lafayette, CA 94549