On May 1, 2003, President George W. Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and announced an end to major combat operations in Iraq saying, “In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.” In the background was a clearly visible banner with the words, “Mission Accomplished.”
Last week, John McCain joked about setting off an IED under Jon Stewart’s desk.
The vast majority of casualties among both coalition forces and Iraqi combatants and civilians have occurred after the speech.
Last week, The House Oversight and Governmental Reform Committee heard testimony from PFC Jessica Lynch and the family of the deceased U.S. Army Ranger (and NFL superstar) Pat Tillman who accused the military of “intentional falsehoods” and “deliberate and careful misrepresentations” in the portrayal of Tillman’s death and Lynch’s heroism. Kevin Tillman: “Revealing that Pat’s death was a fratricide would have been yet another political disaster in a month of political disasters … so the truth needed to be suppressed.”
Last week, Rudy Giuliani suggested that “America will be safer with a Republican president.”
Sixty-four percent of Americans surveyed recently in a CBS-NY Times poll favor setting a timetable for a U.S. troop pullout by 2008. Appearing on ABC’s This Week with George Stephanopoulos this past Sunday, Sen. Russ Feingold (D-WI) rightly noted that the Bush administration has shown “disregard and disrespect for the will of the American people” with their stay-the-course mentality in Iraq. New York and 19 other state legislatures have passed resolutions urging President Bush not to veto the bill passed by Congressional Democrats that calls for a timetable for the withdrawal of American troops from Iraq. Republicans in Congress are beginning to show signs of opposing the war in Iraq.
For the cost of this war we could have provided universal pre-school, universal health care for children, increased college scholarships, increased affordable housing, and a superior public education. Mission of a better society for all so not accomplished.
Today, the fourth anniversary of “Mission Accomplished,” President Bush promises to veto legislation that will bring us one step closer to ending this debacle explaining that it “imposes the judgment of people here in Washington on our military commanders and diplomats.”
[...] Mary at Liberadio: On May 1, 2003, President George W. Bush landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln and announced an end to major combat operations in Iraq saying, “In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.†In the background was a clearly visible banner with the words, “Mission Accomplished.†… Today, the fourth anniversary of “Mission Accomplished,†President Bush promises to veto legislation that will bring us one step closer to ending this debacle explaining that it “imposes the judgment of people here in Washington on our military commanders and diplomats.†Spread It Around: These icons link to social bookmarking sites where readers can share and discover new web pages. [...]