Five years later, Bush says Iraq war must go on

Washington (CNN) -- President Shrub marked the 5th day of remembrance of the Republic Of Iraq warfare on Wednesday by calling the argument over the struggle "understandable" but insisting that a continued U.S. presence there is crucial.

President Shrub Marks the 5th twenty-four hours of remembrance of the start of the Republic Of Republic Of Iraq warfare with a address Wednesday at the Pentagon.

"The replies are clear to me," Shrub said in a address at the Pentagon five old age from the day the warfare began in 2003.

"Removing Saddam Husain from powerfulness was the right decision, and this is a fighting United States can and must win."

Almost 4,000 American military personnel have got died in the , a painful toll that Shrub acknowledged.

"No 1 would reason that this warfare have not come up at a high cost in lives and treasure, but those costs are necessary when we see the cost of a strategical triumph for our enemies in Iraq," the president said.

Shrub said triumph in Republic Of Republic Of Iraq shows American resoluteness and will forestall onslaughts on marks in the United States.

"Defeating this enemy in Iraq will do it less likely we will confront this enemy here at home," he said. Don't Miss

Shrub postulates the so-called troop rush he ordered in January 2007 have been a success and was necessary at a point when "the fighting in Republic Of Republic Of Republic Of Iraq was faltering."

"The rush have done more than than bend the state of affairs in Iraq around; it have opened the door to a major strategical triumph in the broader warfare on terror," he said.

"For the terrorists, Iraq was supposed to be the topographic point where rallied Arab multitude to drive United States out. Instead, Republic Of Republic Of Republic Of Republic Of Iraq have got go the topographic point where Arabs joined with Americans to drive aluminum Qaeda out."

He called Iraq the first topographic point where Muslims have participated in a "large-scale uprising" against Osama bin Laden and aluminum Qaeda.

"We will demo that work force and women who love autonomy can overcome the terrorists," Shrub said.

"A free Iraq will struggle terrorists rather than seaport them."

Still, large-scale assaults by terrorists and insurrectionist groupings go on in Iraq. Bombings killed six Iraqis and hurt 51 in northeasterly Bagdad and Mosul on Tuesday, and the decease toll from a Monday self-destruction bombardment in Karbala rose to 50.

Shrub said critics of the warfare -- such as as Democratic presidential campaigners Sens. Barack Obama and Edmund Hillary Bill Clinton -- "can no longer credibly reason that we are losing in Iraq, so now they reason the warfare costs too much."

Earlier this month, two economic experts wrote a column suggesting that the warfare will weave up costing the United States more than $3 trillion.

The March 9 sentiment piece in The American Capital Post was authored by Chief Joseph E. Stiglitz, a Alfred Nobel Prize-winning economist who was president of the Council of Economic Advisers under President Clinton, and Linda J. Bilmes, a former head fiscal military officer at the U.S. Commerce Department.

Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nevada, have cited the $3 trillion figure when criticizing the Shrub administration's place on the war.

In his speech, Shrub called the proposed cost "exaggerated."

But he admitted more than costs and tough combat remain, pointing to recent conflicts against extremists in northern Iraq. But he said any U.S. disengagement would set peace at hazard in the greater Mideast, emboldening aluminum Qaeda and Iran.

Despite Bush's arguments, the warfare stays unpopular with Americans.

In a CNN/Opinion Research Corp. opinion poll conducted Friday through Sunday, fewer than one in three respondents -- 32 percentage -- said they back up the war, while 66 percentage said they oppose it. Sixty-one percent of those polled said the adjacent president should take most U.S. military personnel from Republic Of Republic Of Iraq "within a few calendar months of taking office."

Meanwhile, two of the world's prima human-centered groupings said this hebdomad the state of affairs in Iraq go forths small room for optimism.

"Despite claims that the security state of affairs have improved in recent months, the human rights state of affairs is disastrous," Amnesty International states in a study titled "Carnage and Despair: Republic Of Republic Of Iraq Five Old Age On."

And the International Committee of the Red Cross, in a study called "Iraq: No Let-up in the Human-Centered Crisis," writes, "Despite limited improvements in security in some areas, armed force is still having a black impact."