Revisionism? Or Just Muddled Thinking?

I've heard bits like this a lot recently and they were striking me as odd:

"Reconstruction has not always gone as well as we had hoped, primarily because of the security challenges on the ground," Bush said in a speech to foreign policy veterans. "Rebuilding a nation devastated by a dictator is a large undertaking. It's even harder when terrorists are trying to blow up that which the Iraqis are trying to build. The terrorists and Saddamists have been able to slow progress, but they haven't been able to stop it."

Now look, I have no love for Sadam Hussein, but... he didn't directly devastate Iraq: The U.S. and its allies did. yes, Sadam engaged in wars that didn't help, and he took off with Oil revenues during the embargoes, but we bombed Iraq... he might have screwed it up, but we knocked it down and out.