Bush: American opposition to the war traceable to insufficient thank-you's from the Iraqi people

From Dan Froomkin:

PELLEY [60 Minutes]: Do you think you owe the Iraqi people an apology for not doing a better job?

BUSH: That we didn't do a better job or they didn't do a better job? *

PELLEY: Well, that the United States did not do a better job in providing security after the invasion.

BUSH: Not at all. I am proud of the efforts we did. We liberated that country from a tyrant. I think the Iraqi people owe the American people a huge debt of gratitude, and I believe most Iraqis express that. I mean, the people understand that we've endured great sacrifice to help them. That's the problem here in America. They wonder whether or not there is a gratitude level that's significant enough in Iraq. **

* "Are you asking me to apologize to the Iraqis for mistakes they have made?"

** Freed from the burden of any real accountability for any statement he makes, Bush effortlessly flip-flops from "most Iraqis express [gratitude]" all the way to "[Americans] wonder whether or not there is a gratitude level that's significant enough in Iraq" in the same paragraph.