PITTSBURGH (Reuters) - The G20 may face a "mission accomplished" moment akin to former President George W. Bush's premature declaration of victory in Iraq unless leaders quickly make good on pledges for substantive financial reforms.
Leaders from the Group of 20 rich and developing nations were so confident they had succeeded in tackling the global financial crisis and recession that they included in the preamble of their final statement on Friday this bold, two-word declarative sentence: "It worked."
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