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More than two decades ago, President George W. Bush stood on the deck of an aircraft carrier under a banner reading “Mission Accomplished” and declared, “In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.”
Of course, U.S. troops continued to fight in Iraq for eight more years and thousands of people, Americans and Iraqis, died.
