Barack Obama: “this is a lose-lose-lose situation that can be easily solved if Congress gets back into town and does its job.”

No one was more skilled at bringing people together and getting legislation passed.

Now the ball’s in your court, Iowa.

We’ve now fought a war, spent billions and billions of dollars, you know, put enormous strain on our military. A lot of people have died. And it feels like we’re back where we were before we started the war, except maybe a little bit worse…

The success of this experiment was never a given.