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Mrs. Bush challenged critics who contend that Iraq was a distraction
for the U.S. mission in Afghanistan, where heightened violence is causing renewed instability. "Well, I don't know that I would agree with that at all," Mrs. Bush said. "I don't think that's true at all. We've stayed very, very invested in Afghanistan. Not as invested militarily, maybe, and maybe that's what the critics say, that it should have been more military. But I think we stayed very invested." Rice said it won't be long before Bush's contributions to the world will be acknowledged. "When you look at what this president took on in terms of AIDS relief and foreign assistance to the world, when you look at the number of countries ... and the number of people that this president has actually liberated
-- you know, I really am someone who believes that you don't want to pay too much attention to today's headlines," she said. But recognition of big achievements sometimes take a long time, Rice said. Rice noted that while Germany was reunified in 1990, the work that made it possible was done in the 1940s, "when things didn't look quite so rosy." So historians who are now making judgments about the Bush administration and its Middle East policies aren't very good historians, Rice said. "One cannot yet judge the effects of decisions that this president has taken on what the Middle East will become," Rice said. "I mean, for goodness' sakes, good historians are still writing books about George Washington." Mrs. Bush spoke on "Fox News Sunday," while Rice was on CBS "Sunday Morning."
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