From Salon: Bush: “The logic is upside-down,” the president said during one campaign stop. “See, we don’t create enemies and terrorists by fighting back. We defeat the terrorists by fighting back.”
Lt Gen Peter Chiarelli, in charge of day to day operations in Iraq, told the Los Angeles Times in Baghdad last month: “We have to understand that the way we treat Iraqis has a direct effect on the number of insurgents that we are fighting. For every one that I kill, I create almost 10 more.”
Sorry this is a month old, I’d missed it. Though I did write this last year.