The Patriot Post® · Iraq Success?

In December 2011 at Fort Bragg, Barack Obama bragged of his grand achievement in ending the war in Iraq. “We knew this day would come,” he boasted. “We’ve known it for some time. But still there is something profound about the end of a war that has lasted so long. It’s harder to end a war than begin one. Everything that American troops have done in Iraq – all the fighting, all the dying, the bleeding and the building and the training and the partnering, all of it has landed to this moment of success. … We’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self reliant Iraq with a representative government that was elected by its people. We’re building a new partnership between our nations and we are ending a war not with a final battle but with a final march toward home. This is an extraordinary achievement.” Now that al-Qaida has control of large swaths of the country, we’d say his “extraordinary achievement” isn’t looking so good. More…