White House Admits Fault on "Mission Accomplished" Banner
By Terence Hunt
The Associated Press

The White House said Wednesday that President Bush has paid a price for the "Mission Accomplished" banner that was flown in triumph five years ago but later became a symbol of U.S. misjudgments and mistakes in the long and costly war in Iraq.

Thursday is the fifth anniversary of Bush's dramatic landing in a Navy jet on an aircraft carrier homebound from the war. The USS Abraham Lincoln had launched thousands of airstrikes on Iraq.

http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/050108F.shtml

mccain talk w/forked tongue...aka more of the "same."

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- A pair of suicide bombers blew themselves up amid a wedding convoy Thursday in northeastern Iraq, killing 35 people and wounding 76 others, Iraqi authorities said.

perhaps the convey folks needed bullet proof vests, to be surrounded by our finest, and rooftop snipers guarding their every step like mccain's past visit to show how safe the streets are?

yep john, "mission accomplished." oh john, you meant in 100 years, maybe?

Click on to my name below to see the actual mission the Republicans are attempting to accomplish!

THE ROPE AROUND THE NECK OF MCCAIN'S CAMPAIGN: BUSH THE KNOT, BASRA THE NOOSE!

Next to Bush and his general, Petraeus, Nixon and Abrams seem like a paragon of truth since they said it as it was, never "mission accomplished." The extend of US *TROOPS* involvement in Basra

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/04/29/AR2008042900560_pf.html

is court room evidence that the "surge" was totally American, at the expense of our troops. There seem not to be enough Iraqis willing to die so Maliki can take control of the nozzle of Iraq's gasoline hose located in Basra. And so, we shed our kids' blood to forcefully steal the nozzle-- after all, he who holds hose and gun gets to keep the contents. Meanwhile, 40 US oil companies are signed up for the American takeover as "free enterprise" (emphasis on "free") of Iraq's 80% oil resources down in Basra. As Maliki fades away, Iraqis can add to their shame of occupation the Americanization by force of Basra's oil.

I was fully behind the Vietnam War because its goal was noble: national independence and sovereign security for SE Asia, free of global Communism. But Iraq is nothing but replacing the British imperialists with the American oilists.

Bush doesn't seem to care, even though, while most draftees in Vietnam were young single men, not moms and dads (50% Reservists up to 56 years old) are forced into repeated tours, leaving behind widows and orphans. I knew LBJ and Nixon. Both were eating their hearts out over Vietnam casualties. This president is a spoiled brat politician who evaded the draft and so can't appreciate the burden of combat; without a war strategy he doesn't deserve the title "Commander-in-Chief." Crocodile tears at posthumous medal awards to widows and orphans will not hide the reckless way in which a VOLUNTEER army is sent helter-skelter to fight and die to fill-er-up our SUVs and the careless way the bereaved and the wounded are abandoned as veterans. How many of you know how many had cuts in promised services? If you don't you are as unpatriotic as the uncaring political tactician without any strategy we call "president" that wastes the last of America's heroes. How else can one interpret the fact that 50% of the volunteers for the Marine Corps today needed a moral waiver?....Before answering think about the announcement by Latino gang leaders in LA that they want their gang members to join the Marines and fight in Iraq so they can have training for their gang wars with other criminals and the police. Bush will be remembered as the last American NERO-- not hero-- who fiddled while America's wealth and heroes burned...You silence makes every one of you a co-Bush!

Daniel E. Teodoru

The White House said Wednesday that President Bush has paid a price for the "Mission Accomplished" banner that was flown in triumph five years ago but later became a symbol of U.S. misjudgments and mistakes in the long and costly war in Iraq.

HE HAS PAID THE PRICE OF EMBARASSMENT IF THE LITTLE BASTARD EVEN FEELS ANY SHAME.(I don't think he does) 4,000 SOLDIERS AND A MILLION IRAQIS HAVE PAID WITH THEIR LIVES!!! I wish the whimpy media would keep playing the tape of the arrogant, ignorant chimp on the aircraft carrier 5 long bloody years ago over and over......just like they showed the video of Sdaddam hanging on New Years over and over and over....yep John McCain- 100 more years of it. have you seen the MOVE ON ad? the birthday cake and candles? brilliant!

'Mission Accomplished': How the Media Covered the Bush Pronouncement 5 Years Ago -- and its Aftermath

NEW YORK On May 1, 2003, Richard Perle advised, in a USA Today Op-Ed, “Relax, Celebrate Victory.” The same day, exactly five years ago, President Bush, dressed in a flight suit, landed on the deck of the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln and declared an end to major military operations in Iraq — with the now-infamous “Mission Accomplished” banner arrayed behind him in the war’s greatest photo op.

Chris Matthews on MSNBC called Bush a “hero” and boomed, “He won the war. He was an effective commander. Everybody recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics.” PBS' Gwen Ifill said Bush was “part Tom Cruise, part Ronald Reagan.” On NBC, Brian Williams gushed, "The pictures were beautiful. It was quite something to see the first-ever American president on a -- on a carrier landing. This must be very meaningful to the United States military."

When Bush’s jet landed on an aircraft carrier, American casualties stood at 139 killed and 542 wounded.

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003797005

Why doesn't the DNC run their great ad's against McCain on ABC, NBC and CBS. Running them on CNN is a waste, most people that watch it get it already. It's the bubba's that would rather watch paint dry, or American Idol, or According to Jim, than cable "news" that we need to reach.

We would rather see almost anything than to be reminded how many men and woman have died in Iraq since the "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" over 4,000.

We sometimes forget that troops are men and women just like you and I they hurt and bleed.

They find it hard to concentrate with all that gear on in the heat of Iraq.

It would be hard to sleep with bugs crawling on you and so hot your were wet with sweat, but they are exhausted and they need sleep more that comfort.

Just because your General plans the stradigy of War in an air conditioned room, it is quite different when you get in the field. Knowing the next breath may be your last because some man or woman has lied to you and told that you would go to Paradise if you died while killing others.

What a shame that most of a Nation have been so deceived.