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Bush in Iraq defends the war but says it's 'not over'

 

Published 12/15/2008 at L.A. Times - Politics

Iraq is 'dramatically freer, dramatically safer and dramatically better,' he says. The unannounced visit is greeted with praise and contempt. > In a farewell visit to Iraq, President Bush on Sunday defended his handling of the war but warned that it was "not over" yet, nearly six years after he launched the invasion that toppled a brutal dictator but left Iraq, and the president's legacy, struggling to recover. (link)

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