Bush's Victory Rhetoric Makes Him a Loser, Not Just a Liar.

Bush is (1) insisting on victory; (2) defining victory as the prerequisite for withdrawal; and (3) starting to withdraw. But what he's not doing is the one thing he must do: tell us how we'll know if we've achieved victory.
Victory has to be visible. Absent that, we all know that withdrawal is a declaration of defeat.

George! If you want to be a war time president, you have to win the war! Being a liar is sick, but being a loser is fatal. We regular Americans don't put up with presidents who are losers.