To mark the anniversary of the invasion, both President Bush and Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld defended the war. “The victory of freedom in Iraq is strengthening a new ally in the war on terror, and inspiring democratic reformers from Beirut to Tehran,” said Bush in his weekly radio address. Defense Secretary Rumseld appeared on Fox News Sunday. He blamed the Iraqi resistance in part on Turkey. “Well, given the level of the insurgency today, two years later, clearly if we had been able to get the 4th Infantry Division in from the north through Turkey, more of the Iraqi Saddam Hussein Baathist regime would have been captured or killed,” said Rumsfeld. “The insurgency today would be less.”