Successs is Measured in Many Ways

Apparently Bush called the war in Iraq a "Catastrophic Success."

From Dictionary.com:

ca·tas·tro·phe  Pronunciation Key  (k-tstr-f) n.

1. A great, often sudden calamity.
2. A complete failure; a fiasco: The food was cold, the guests quarreledthe whole dinner was a catastrophe.
3. The concluding action of a drama, especially a classical tragedy, following the climax and containing a resolution of the plot.
4. A sudden violent change in the earth's surface; a cataclysm.

Every single one of those definitions has negative connotations. It's puzzling that Bush would use such an adjective.

Perhaps it was a freudian slip.