IT’S THE ANNIVERSARY OF BUSH’S “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED” SPEECH, which has lots of lefties chortling.

Er, except that Harry Reid seems to agree, really, with the “end of major combat operations” that Bush was celebrating:

“The military mission has long since been accomplished. The failure has been political. It has been policy. It has been presidential,” Reid said in excerpts of the speech released by his office.

At the time of the speech, of course, the complaint from many Democrats was that Bush was generating campaign-commercial footage out of a military triumph that belonged to all Americans, given the wide support for the war. Well, that story has changed, as the many, many Democrats who supported the war try to execute their pivot.

That said, I was one of the relatively few critics of the event back when it took place, and I strongly suspect that the Bush folks wish now that they hadn’t done it. Well, live and learn.

UPDATE: Ed Morrissey notes that people should pay more attention to what Bush actually said four years ago. Read the whole thing. And note what Hillary Clinton said!