4,474 combat deaths. Over a trillion dollars. Nearly nine years. The costs of the misbegotten Bush adventure in Iraq are staggering. And what did we get for all that? The world's largest embassy.

President Obama was always against the war, even going back to his infamous speech in 2002, "Against Going to War With Iraq." Whether you agreed or disagreed with the war in Iraq, it's now officially over - though most of the media barely seems to have covered this monumental event.

In case you missed it, here is President Obama giving the speech, officially ending the war in Iraq.