June 19, 2014 8:59AM

Mission Accomplished, He Said

By David Boaz

Everything that American troops have done in Iraq, all the fighting and all the dying, the bleeding and the building, and the training and the partnering — all of it has led to this moment of success. Now, Iraq is not a perfect place. It has many challenges ahead. But we’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self‐​reliant Iraq.

Yes, that was President Obama at Fort Bragg, North Carolina, on December 14, 2011.


For another perspective, former vice president Dick Cheney in the Wall Street Journal Wednesday:

Rarely has a U.S. president been so wrong about so much at the expense of so many. 

In case there’s any doubt — he means President Obama, not the president who launched the war that cost 4,487 American soldiers’ lives, 32,000 Americans wounded, some 100,000 to 500,000 Iraqi deaths, and as much as $6 trillion.


Maybe they should have listened to the Cato Institute back in 2001 and 2002.