"Bush campaign ads using team"

[Taem]

There’s so many threads in this thread that I'm not sure where to put this little tidbit so I'll just plop it down here.

Before I post, I would like to clarify that I'm genuinely curious as to 'what' Bush means by this statement and am not trying to make him "look bad"; he does the job well enough himself thank-you! Anyways, I'm curious as to what fellow Lurkers think about bushes statement regarding the war in Iraq:

The president, who was campaigning in West Virginia, called the war a "catastrophic success." He noted in a Time magazine interview in today's editions that he still would have gone into Iraq, but with different tactics, had he known "that an enemy that should have surrendered or been done in escaped and lived to fight another day."

The full article can be found here:
http://www.latimes.com/news/yahoo/la-na-pr...1,7352809.story

Is he claiming the war is successfully catastrophic, and his goal of chaos was fulfilled <sarcasm>? Is he saying there were terrible losses but the war was still a success? If the latter, then this seems to conflict with his other statements:

"I don't think you can win it. But I think you can create the conditions that those who use terror as a tool are less acceptable in parts of the world," he told NBC.

The full article can be found here:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/C/CVN...EMPLATE=DEFAULT

If you can't "win it", then how is it a success? Which makes me wonder, just what the hell is he trying to say? I will hold my more outlandish theories until I hear some of yours ;) .