The Iraq War was failing until President Bush bravely ordered a surge in 2007 that won the war, but President Obama squandered the victory, requiring a new surge now.
Jeb Bush's stumbling start to his presidential bid has refocused attention on Washington's favorite excuse for the illegal, aggressive and disastrous war in Iraq.
Toss out the historical background and you can recast any U.S. mission as a flawed but honorable, if not noble, effort by good-guy rescuers to save innocents from the …