Since the president would never lie, there must be some other explanation as to why he’s absolutely wrong about the progress being made. Jon Stewart has a eureka moment when he realizes that the solution to our quagmire in Iraq is not in planning for the future, but in perceiving our involvement in a non-linear fashion. Indeed, it is we who are wrong, not Bush. Along the president’s timeline, Iraq was in the midst of a civil war, a democratic government was installed, terrorism fell, US forces prevailed and left the country, and a dictator named Saddam kept al-Qaeda and other terrorists out for decades.