The extent to which Iraq has influenced events can be seen by looking at the
language used by President Bush before and after the invasion.
On 31 August this year he told the American Legion in Salt Lake City: "This
war will be long... but it's a war we must wage, and a war we will win...The
war we fight today is more than a military conflict; it is the decisive
ideological struggle of the 21st Century."
His use of the future tense in "We will win" contrasts with what he said
before the invasion. On 26 February 2003, he declared in a speech in
Washington: "We have arrested, or otherwise dealt with, many key commanders
of al-Qaeda. Across the world, we are hunting down the killers one by one.
We are winning."
The change of tense shows how far any expectation of victory has been put
off.
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