President Obama bragged in October 2011. He had succeeded in fulfilling a crucial campaign promise.

He said, quote, as a candidate for president, I pledge to bring the war in Iraq to a responsible end.

Iraqis have taken full responsibility for their country's security. He then added, after nearly nine

years, America's war in Iraq will be over. Of course, as soon as America pulled out, ISIS and Iran pulled in. Today,

the military requested that 500 more troops be sent to Iraq to prepare a new invasion of Mosul.

According to the Wall Street Journal, the new U.S. forces would increase the number of American

personnel officially deployed in Iraq from 4,400 to about 4,900. We also have 1,500 additional U.S. forces that the Pentagon

doesn't acknowledge as part of the Iraq force. We actually have 6,400 people in Iraq. In July

2011, it's worth remembering. The L.A. Times reported the White House was considering keeping 10,000

troops in Iraq after the end of the war in order to prevent terrorist uprisings. The White House obviously

ended up rejecting that plan and ISIS used the vacuum in order to overrun Iraq's borders.

If Obama had implemented that plan, as the Wall Street Journal's Brett Stevens pointed out today,

the U.S. would likely have about like 6,400 troops in Iraq today and no ISIS.

And by the way, those ISIS troops who was reported are now

using mustard gas, that's weapons of mass destruction against American troops. But that's been

Obama's presidency in a nutshell. You promise something undoable. You try to do it. You fail.

And then you watch as circumstances force you to embrace the plan you rejected while you still

pay for the consequences of your failure. That's what happened in Syria, where Obama once wanted Assad gone, then backed down from his red line, then had to embrace a let Assad kill them position, all the while accepting tens of thousands of Syrian refugees. It happened in Iran too, where Obama wanted to make Iran part of the global community, and people said this is going to fail. And then he signed a deal to legitimize them. And now he's going to escape office just in time to avoid watching the Iranians

to work the deal utterly under his watch. It happened domestically also. Obama promised universal

health care and then he delivered the Obamacare failure. And now he has to beg states to expand

Medicaid to fulfill his promises. Obama's policies have been a giant, massive, undeniable failure.

The policies have cost lives that they've destroyed full countries.

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