Iraq War

It might be a classic case of a negative result emerging from a positive event. Today marked the official end to the Iraq War — a nine year odyssey that cost trillions of dollars and ruined hundreds of thousands of lives. The war began when George W. Bush and his administration lied to Congress...

Thank God. Or rather, thank Barack Obama, who finally, mercifully, years-later-than-necessary pulled the plug on the pointless war in Iraq. The last few thousand troops still stationed in Iraq will fly out of the country on December 31. That date will mark the end of a nine-year campaign that...