GW Bush - obstinancy bordering on madness?

Our esteemed president, George W. Bush, is sounding more and more like a broken record on the war in Iraq, not too surprising given that he has a broken record on many fronts so far.
Bush seems bent on his mantra of completing the "mission" in Iraq, so that the loss of the 2,000 plus American soldiers who have died in this conflict were not lost in vain.
This argument seems analgous to someone who sticks his hand under a running lawnmower and loses a finger, then proceeds to place his hand there further so that the finger was not "lost in vain", in order to complete the original mission. We are losing our appendages when we should be reassessing why we lost our finger in the first place.
The way out of Iraq is through honesty - apologize to the world and our country for mistakes that were made - in intelligence, in hubris, in viewing the world through faith-based eyes rather than reality based vision. Make a concerted effort to reform the intelligence community so that information used to go to war is correct and verified. Finally, redirect our war on terror with good intelligence as the foundation. The war on terror does not need stealth bombers or a $350 billion/year military infrastructure to succeed - it needs correct intelligence and a focus on terrorist leaders. A snake cannot slither too long with it's head removed. In other words, it's about Osama, stupid!
Until we get real leadership on the war on terror, American soldiers will continue to die in vain under George W. Bush's lack of leadership. The obstinante refrain of "completing the mission", "staying the course" will be the death knell for thousands more Americans in our military.