BUSH: IRAQUAGMIRE = US REVOLUTION?

According to [http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4729127&sourceCode=RSS|a post] at NPR.org, Bush has apparently compared the US occupation of Iraq to the US Revolution against Britain. Here's an excerpt from that NPR post:

In his remarks, the president defended his policies in the war and likened the difficulties there to the struggles of the Revolutionary War in the years after the Declaration of Independence.

Yeeee-no.

Sorry, pal! The US Revolution was about starting a brand new country and freeing said country from an oppressive imperialistic occupier who--

HEY WAIT! That's exactly right!!