We Blame George W. Bush 
Remember when liberating Iraq was the worst foreign-policy mistake in American history? Now it turns out to have been anything but. The Los Angeles Times's Andrew Malcolm notes that Iraq is now so successful that the Obama administration, speaking via Vice President Biden, is taking credit for it. Here is what Biden said last night on CNN's "Larry King Live":

I am very optimistic about--about Iraq. I mean, this could be one of the great achievements of this administration. You're going to see 90,000 American troops come marching home by the end of the summer. You're going to see a stable government in Iraq that is actually moving toward a representative government.

I spent--I've been there 17 times now. I go about every two months--three months. I know every one of the major players in all the segments of that society. It's impressed me. I've been impressed how they have been deciding to use the political process rather than guns to settle their differences.

Malcolm notes that Biden and President Obama both opposed the 2007 surge, and that Biden once had some crazy plan for partitioning Iraq. But all's well that ends well. And as for former president George W. Bush, just remember Reagan's dictum: "There is no limit to what a man can do or where he can go if he doesn't mind who gets the credit."