by Geoffrey Bennett

George Bush
Mandel Ngan, AFP/Getty Images

President George W. Bush makes his way to board Marine One on the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, D.C.

This from the AP: "Five years after launching the invasion of Iraq, President Bush strongly signaled Wednesday that he won't order troop withdrawals beyond those already planned because he refuses to 'jeopardize the hard-fought gains' of the past year."

Here's more:

"The surge ... has opened the door to a major strategic victory in the broader war on terror," the president said. "We are witnessing the first large-scale Arab uprising against Osama bin Laden, his grim ideology, and his terror network. And the significance of this development cannot be overstated."

"The challenge in the period ahead is to consolidate the gains we have made and seal the extremists' defeat," he said. "We have learned through hard experience what happens when we pull our forces back too fast — the terrorists and extremists step in, fill the vacuum, establish safe havens and use them to spread chaos and carnage."

We're talking about the five-year anniversary of the war all this week — and today on the bloggers' roundtable. What is your position on the war? How has it changed over the years?