The Past

NYTimes.com:

Gordon D. Johndroe, a White House spokesman, said only: “The improved security in Iraq allows us to have conversations with the Iraqis about setting goals for more American troops to come home and for the Iraqis to take the lead in more combat missions. Any dates in an agreement will be based on conditions on the ground because we do not want to lose the hard-fought gains of the surge.”

The war began in early 2003. The "surge" began ramping up in early 2007, complete by let's say mid-2007.

The White House really believes that we can just pretend that those FOUR YEARS of the War never happened, and anyone who says differently is somehow living in the past - that the only relevant component of the Bush Presidency is the "surge."

We will never forget your crimes and your failures.