Happy fourth anniversary

Four years ago today, George W. Bush took a ride in a military jet to an aircraft carrier off the San Diego coast, and declared the Iraq conflict over.

At the time, all the triumphalists in the media--and there were so many--confidently predicted that this corny, staged, and, as it turned out, premature photo-op would go down in history as the defining moment of the Bush presidency.

We can certainly hope so.