What's A Little More Sacrifice?

"Wars are not won without sacrifice, and this war will require more sacrifice, more time, and more resolve. The terrorists are as brutal an enemy as we have ever faced," George Bush said today in a speech to the National Endowment for Democracy.

Can he really not believe that the sacrifice of 1,945 American lives is not sufficient, given the stated objective of taking weapons of mass destruction out of the hands of Saddam Hussein? (An objective which, by the way, Bush well knew had already been achieved before even the first American serviceman gave his life to the cause.)