Watch the last 4 presidents announce plans to bomb Iraq

Watch the last 4 presidents announce plans to bomb Iraq
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It's déjà vu all over again as President Obama becomes the fourth consecutive president to announce a bombing campaign in Iraq. As The Onion put it in their "Pros and Cons of Military Intervention against ISIS" article yesterday, at this rate, we're just "going to have to do it all over again in six years, 13 years, 17 years, and 21 years anyway." Watch Presidents George H.W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, and now Obama make their statements over the span of two decades in the video below. Bonnie Kristian

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Bonnie Kristian

Bonnie Kristian was a deputy editor and acting editor-in-chief of TheWeek.com. She is a columnist at Christianity Today and author of Untrustworthy: The Knowledge Crisis Breaking Our Brains, Polluting Our Politics, and Corrupting Christian Community (forthcoming 2022) and A Flexible Faith: Rethinking What It Means to Follow Jesus Today (2018). Her writing has also appeared at Time Magazine, CNN, USA Today, Newsweek, the Los Angeles Times, and The American Conservative, among other outlets.