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How foreign-policy lessons from Iraq inform Obama’s Iran deal

Last week President Obama defended the Iran agreement in part by dismissing its critics as people who supported the war in Iraq 13 years ago — “the same people who seem to have no compunction with being repeatedly wrong,” he said. Politicians and pundits should be judged on their records. If you think my support […]

Fred Hiatt reports for the Washington Post:

Last week President Obama defended the Iran agreement in part by dismissing its critics as people who supported the war in Iraq 13 years ago — “the same people who seem to have no compunction with being repeatedly wrong,” he said.

Politicians and pundits should be judged on their records. If you think my support of the Iraq war in 2002 invalidates any other argument I will ever make, then you shouldn’t read my column. That’s fair enough.