Rumsfeld Saved the Day for Bush

With the White House spinning the context for Mission Accomplished today, it's worth noting what the actual intention of the phrase was -- which was initially in the speech until Rumsfeld took it out.

MR. WOODWARD: Just one quick thing not on the list but someone told me about the other day, which I found fascinating. When the person that gave that speech on the Lincoln with the "Mission Accomplished" on the back, somebody told me that the White House speechwriters had used MacArthur's surrender speech on the Missouri as a model. And they literally had in that speech "the guns are silent," and you edited it out.

SEC. RUMSFELD: I took "mission accomplished" out. I was in Baghdad, and I was given a draft of that thing to look at. And I just died, and I said my God, it's too conclusive. And I fixed it and sent it back..

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Rumsfield, what a comic!

Did you notice that Hillary has finally become more popular than OBama.

We just can't take a chance that OBama won't make a similar mistaken choice, like listening to hate toward America and the whites for twenty years!

when he is making choices for your life and mine or making choices for America at home or abroad.

Some people can sound so sincere and loving, while so deceiving and being deceived.

That Choice that OBama made to listen to hate instead of the "Love Of God toward all of man kind to save your soul." That is what preachers are suppose to preach.

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oneforall on May 2, 2008 at 11:38 AM

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