I wrote a fantasy presidential speech in anticipation. I know Obama will be a big sweet softy about all this because he would never want to hurt a Republican's feelings, but a kid can dream, can't he?

I wish Obama would just outline the history of our justifications for going into Iraq. I'm bored at work, so I wrote my own little presidential speech for fun.

'First, America believed we should go to war with Iraq because they were told Saddam Hussein was responsible for 9/11. Then we believed because we were told Iraq had weapons of mass destruction. Then we believed that it was our responsibility to bring Democracy to the Middle East.

There was no connection between 9/11 and Iraq, there were never any weapons of Mass Destruction, and America should never use force to change a nation’s way of life.

After our original justifications for our attack of Iraq were exposed to the light of truth, found to be false, we stayed in Iraq because we were already there. Because we had destroyed a country, and it was our responsibility to build it back up.

As we take a moment to reflect, let us reflect on the sacrifices those troops and the people of Iraq have made in the changing causes of this war. Millions of Iraqis have been displaced, or forced to flee the country, hundreds of thousands of their civilians are dead, thousands of our troops bravely sacrificed their lives, and thousands more have lost limbs, or suffered permanent injury. And these great United States has spent trillions of dollars in this venture, and created a crippling deficit in the process.

What were those brave sacrifices for? We did not stop or slow Radical Islamic Terrorism through attacking Iraq. We did not prevent a WMD attack against the United States. And though Iraq has gained a measure of stability it lost as a result of our invasion, it is not as safe or stable as it once was.

But the American spirit demands success from our endeavors. We're a country that likes to win. But the finish line for Iraq is not what it was when we were convinced that invasion was necessary.

So how do we make this war in Iraq a win? We reflect on the differences between our justifications for war, and the sacrifices millions of people have made, and we resolve never to let this happen again. We will have won in Iraq if we have learned from our mistakes. We will have won in Iraq if we don't allow our leaders to send our brave soldiers to war without getting their facts straight. We will have won the war in Iraq if we as a country never go to war with disregard for the horrific consequences of war. We will have won the war in Iraq if we never make the mistake we made in attacking Iraq in the first place.'