Bush: Iraq War ‘Longer and More Costly Than Expected’

Susan Davis reports on the White House. President George W. Bush acknowledged today that the U.S. involvement in Iraq has been longer and more expensive that he had originally anticipated, the Associated Press reported . “For example, the fight in Iraq has been longer and more costly than expected,” Bush said in a speech today on the Middle East. The president expressed no regret for the 2003 decision to invade Iraq, reiterating his argument that the world was at risk as long as Saddam Hussein remained in power. “It was clear to me, to members of both political parties, and to many leaders around the world that after Sept. 11, this was a risk we could not afford to take,” the president said about the decision to go to war. More than 4,000 U.S. troops have been killed since the invasion. (link)