Rumsfeld Saved the Day for Bush
Posted by Michael Link on May 1, 2008 at 11:59 AM
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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