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The Republicans who say it’s bad form for President Obama to seek political gain for having given the order to kill Osama bin Laden seem to forget that George W. Bush strutted about the deck of an aircraft carrier nine years ago in a grossly premature celebration of “Mission Accomplished” in the war in Iraq.
The toll of U.S. military casualties in Iraq at the time of Bush’s posturing stood at 139 killed and 542 wounded. More than 4,000 deaths and 31,000 non-fatal injuries were yet to come.
And when Bush and his surrogates subsequently used the Iraq war as a political issue in his campaign for ...
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