A dozen years ago, Congress authorized President George W. Bush to invade Iraq to prevent the regime of then-dictator Saddam Hussein from posing a threat to this country with weapons of mass destruction we later discovered he did not have.

In his second inaugural address in 2005, Bush described the broader utopian vision motivating his foreign policy.

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