the rix mix

Revisit that trumphant moment with the original White House press release, President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended.

"The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We've removed an ally of al Qaeda, and cut off a source of terrorist funding. And this much is certain: No terrorist network will gain weapons of mass destruction from the Iraqi regime, because the regime is no more. (Applause.)

"In these 19 months that changed the world, our actions have been focused and deliberate and proportionate to the offense. We have not forgotten the victims of September the 11th -- the last phone calls, the cold murder of children, the searches in the rubble. With those attacks, the terrorists and their supporters declared war on the United States. And war is what they got. (Applause.)"

I prefer recalling the woman I was with four years ago
who always went home at 5 a.m. so she could let her dogs out,
her old white Econoline cargo van sputtering to life
in the pre-dawn drizzle.

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