What mission? What's accomplished?

Five years since "Mission Accomplished" and "Major Combat Operations in Iraq have Ended."

And now Dana Perino at the White House tells us that "the banner should have been much more specific." Yeah, some of those specifics should have been 4,000 American dead, uncountable thousands of Iraqis dead, uncountable Americans and Iraqis suffering from PTSD, depletion of the American military, the squandering of the moral high ground in virtually every international debate, justifications of torture that Saddam himself would have enjoyed, creating a training and testing ground for terrorists (how much better have IEDs gotten), draining of the American economy, and no end in sight.

The worse foreign policy decision in at least a generation. Based on lies and self-deception. Repeatedly made worse by even more bad decisions (dismantling the Iraqi Army).

Shameful.