“We got rid of a terrible dictator. We gave the Iraqi people an opportunity for a new life under a representative form of government.”
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I think whether you're having setbacks or not, the role of a leader is to always display a winning attitude.
You should see what our Founding Fathers used to say to each other and in the early part of our nation. But what they were able to do, especially in Philadelphia in 1787, four months, they argued about what a House should be, what a Senate should be, the power of the president, the Congress, the Supreme Court. And they had to deal with slavery.
We all hoped in 2001 that we could put in place an Afghan government under President Karzai that would be able to control the country, make sure al-Qaeda didn't come back, and make sure the Taliban wasn't resurging. It didn't work out.
I don't think we handled the aftermath of the fall of Baghdad as well as we might have. But that's now history.
