I think he misunderestimates himself. The death toll is likely much higher than what he took credit for.

Nice that he learned a new 'fact'...the 30,000 Iraqi dead(another fact of his wrong of course)that he could dazzle people with to show he's on top of things..maybe someone should have asked him about the over 100,000 troops from Iraq/Afghanistan who are now having to receive medical care from the VA....and how that is effecting all those families ..crap..what I really wanted to write was he's just one sick sociopathic fucker who doesn't give a rats ass about anyone but himself and wanted to play dress up as Commander-in-Chief.

'Poverty is the worst form of violence'--Gandhi

. . . which, one, wonders, is what exactly?

Is this crew really a quantum leap from the past, or is it that their blatant in-your-face aggression holds a mirror to America's face into which it cannot bear to gaze.

I can't help but view this as One War, waged since 1991 across three administrations. A fourth (at least) is most likely. W. would make the decision again, Madeleine assured us it was worth it, Daddy B no doubt has some similar self-satisfied remark. The numbers are all worng. The numbers are all . . . obscene. The reality near unimaginable no matter how graphic my reading.

The poet Robert Duncan writing 40-some years ago, conjured the image of the hydra, a multi-headed, self-regenerating beast:

I am speaking now of the Dream in which America sleeps, the New World,
moaning, floundering, in three hundred years of invasions--our own history
     out of Europe and enslaved Africa.

. . .

And will there be men to come who will remember
the names of the presidents, governors, mayors
   this profound Evil has placed over us,
each appropriate to this circle of the Inferno?

   The powers of business and industry taking over government
War the biggest business of all
    --the interests of property the ultimate basis of this order--
they gave us the business.    And the Congress divided,
but the majority again and again for self-interest and profit
and to make good the Lie
     against the well-being of the people,

armies abroad and spies in every nation,      false witnesses,

and at home the cops in the streets now, the "law" supplanting the Law,
     having full mandate from the courts to kill without question,

back of the scene the bosses and war-mongerers, misusers of the public trust

. . .

...their faces, names .. Rubins, Hayakawa, Aliotos, Reagans, Nixons
     as we go upward the stupidity thickens,

reflections in the oil-slick multiplied.

     The Hydra prepares in every dream, even in the Revolution,
            his offices.

            His clowns come forward to entertain us.

(from "Passages 35, Before the Judgment," Tribunals, 1970, also in Groundwork: Before the War, 1984

I can't seem to face up to the facts
I'm tense and nervous and I can't relax
I can't sleep 'cause my bed's on fire "