Just cause, wrong president, did the right thing, for the wrong reasons.
An action that was too late and too little to win the peace, but enough to win the war.
War presidents and resistance leaders, with dubious motives, makes the future uncertain, for every one.

Albert , Vaxjo, Sweden

Right on time!

"..bin Laden threatens Europe on anniversary"

Translation:

Bush via his deep-frozen nemesis named Bin Ladin warns Europe to fully support his wars in Afghanistan and Iraq...or Osama's gonna getcha !!

jayil, london, uk

"A five-minute audio message"

I can understand why bin-laden is using audio messages. The last a few video messages made him look 10-15 years younger. He's doing really well for a guy with serious medical problems since 1987. They must have sophisticated hi-tech, medical rooms built inside his cave... but no video cameras.

Mohammed, London, UK

What about Tibetan's lives Chen of Beijing.....?

Phil, Preston,

Must win? Win what? Win how? Win over whom?

You are fighting the population itself, a major part of the population. You are not fighting an army or a state.

What is “win” in this context?

As always, Bush speaks in tired pseudo-historical phrases about a situation he doesn't even understand.

How do you win militarily over an idea or a conviction?

It's ridiculous, just as Bush is ridiculous.

He blurs his gigantic bloody blunder in Iraq with his fantasy war on terror.

There never was any terror in Iraq, just as there never is in any state with an absolute government.

From a purely American point of view, Hussein was better for long term interests than the mess that has been created.

Hussein's tyranny had nothing to do with invading Iraq, absolutely nothing. America does business every day with tyrants, as it did business with Hussein so long as he toed the American policy line.

America plainly loves obedient tyrants in other lands, just as Imperial Rome did. There are so many of them it keeps as associates. It is just a heap of intellectual garbage to speak of American values at stake. Nothing American is at stake, except America’s international reputation which has reached pretty much an all-time low.

9/11 was an attack by a group of mainly Saudi Arabian religious extremists, so what is America doing in Iraq? It never made an ounce of sense. Those men were motivated by American policies in the region, both its putting troops in holy places of Saudi Arabia and its unthinking, unbalanced policy towards the Palestinians.

And as I've said, relatively simple security measures could have prevented 9/11. Lazy-minded American legislators are about as responsible as the Saudi group for not having legislated locked cockpits and better ground searches.

JOHN CHUCKMAN, toronto, Canada

Question: What do you do with two TRILLION dollars?

Answer: Spend it in Iraq and Afganistan.

Tony, london, uk

No lessons were learned from Vietnam war.

damon, liverpool, uk

This story runs with the Heather Mills articles in the Press.

The judges comments on Ms Mills are very apt for Mr Bush.

K. Urban, London, UK

Bush likes to tell it how he wants it to be, not how it is.

margiem, victoria, australia

Yes it's a victory, we secured 1/4 of world oil reserve and will sell it at high prices to France and Germany, we will isolate russia and Iran. 4000 dead is nothing. very little money spent.
Bush is genuious pretending fool.

John, NYC, USA

Um. President Bush has lost all his creditability. Its time for him to just be quiet until moving day arrives.

Jeffrey Singleton, Alpharetta, GA

So tragic to have a fool as American president.

Andrew Milner, Yokohama, Japan

The biggest economy in the world spends 205 billion pounds over 5 years on the Iraq War.

That's around 40 billion pound per year.

The UK with the 5 th (or 6th?) largest economy in the world spends 167.5 billion pounds IN ONE YEAR on quangos.

If George Bush is delusional then he should consider moving to Britain where he will be in good company.

R Smith, Perth, Australia

"Iraq war was a success and will end in victory"

Yeah. Sure. Right. We believe everything and anything that you say, Honest George.

Garth Strong, San Diego, USA

Whatever victories have been achieved are due to the men and women fighting or working day-to-day in Afghanistan and Iraq. These victories are not because of Bush's or Cheney's insane decisions, but in spite of them.

By the way, great foto of our Fearless Leader of the Free World.

Clancy, Brooklyn, USA/NY

Well duh, Mr President. The Mission was Accomplished 5 years ago, at minimal cost and casualties. Hail the conquering hero and all that, but it'd be even more impressive if you'd let other people remind us about your triumphs instead of bragging about them yourself.

aleks, Seoul, South Korea

how can you wage war on terror when war is terror?

chris, roselle,

Hey Chen in Beijing:

America did not kill "tens of thousands". Al Qaeda and Shiite extremists did it. They represent a tradition of killing and oppression that has kept the Middle East in a constant state of misery for thousands of years.

We are putting an end to it. You think you can do that without loss of life? You can't even do that in YOUR OWN COUNTRY.

The day you can lecture the US will be the day you stop aiming nukes at your own people in Taiwan.

You Han people are always good for a laugh.

Fritz, San Diego, CA

And Bush smiles about putting his feet up in Crawford next year while those he ordered to war will be keeping theirs on the ground in harms way, absent a huge bubble of security...and the families he has destroyed with his preemptive war that had nothing to preempt will live with the cost for the rest of their lives...off base, of course.

Valjean, Union, Oregon / USA

A war based on lies is always evil, no matter the outcome. It can never be called victorious. Similar to child abuse. It can not be called a good thing, even if the child turns out alright later on.

Barb, Sarasota, USA, Fl

lol, I support the war, but i had to laugh at Alex's comment.

Bryan, Houston, USA

...demonstrations were taking place in Washington and elsewhere across the country against a conflict that has cost almost 4,000 American lives and up to $500 billion.

for you Americans, the lifes of tens of thousands Iraqis are no more than a nil?

Chen, beijing, china

Our President is obviously delusional.

John Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA

Ha Ha! Bush's remarks are a joke.

Alex, Paris, France