Bwahaha! Yeah NYT, I totally believe that your sympathies are with Maliki and not with Sadr.../s
First thing that the author should do is identify what was the actual mission going into Iraq and he or she would find that the mission was indeed accomplished.
Our troops might be fighting in the same battle field now but they are also fighting an entirely different enemy.
As soon as the terrorists entered into Iraq got into the fight, it is an entirely different mission all together. It had become an extension of the war on terrorists and not Iraq.
I wonder how the author was so STUPID that he or she missed that part.
Dishonest press. They also ignore the fact there was peace and elections until Iran jumped in with Syria and started the insurgency in connection with Al Quada in 2005.
Disgusting.
But I must say that, as a political infighter, Bush is a moron.
It was known from the beginning that that banner was put up by the crew of the carrier to celebrate their return to the U.S. after a tour of active duty. They were celebrating their accomplishments and their return. And some photographer caught Bush standing in front of it—whether a Bush propagandist or a leftist stringer, I don’t know.
In any case, why on earth has Bush let this false charge fester for so many years without ever answering it? It seems to be part of a pattern of letting his enemies define everything in their terms. They constantly lie, and he constantly stands there with his mouth open and lets them to it.
The NYT hates this country and it’s military. But that’s okay, I hate the NYT and it’s Commie bunch of loonies. They can cheer on their Al Qaeda pals all they want. I’m going to continue cheering for the U.S. military.
The "Mission Accomplished" sign was put up by the crew of the aircraft carrier that had successfully accomplished their assigned mission and was steaming home.
The writers at the New York Times, like all other liberals that have never served a single day in the military, seem to have no clue about the difference between what a "mission" is and what a "war" is.
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Webster's Dictionary -
Mission:
Etymology: New Latin, Medieval Latin, & Latin; New Latin mission-, missio religious mission, from Medieval Latin, task assigned, from Latin, act of sending, from mittere to send
: a specific task with which a person or a group is charged (1): a definite military, naval, or aerospace task (a bombing mission) (a space mission)
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And an orderly exit comes after victory??? Is that in there anywhere?? Oops. This is the NYTIMES. My boo-boo.
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Bush nor the Whitehouse ver said "Mission Accomplished." This is what Bush said on that day:
"We have difficult work to do in Iraq. We are bringing order to parts of that country that remain dangerous. We are pursuing and finding leaders of the old regime, who will be held to account for their crimes... We are helping to rebuild Iraq, where the dictator built palaces for himself, instead of hospitals and schools. And we will stand with the new leaders of Iraq as they establish a government of, by, and for the Iraqi people. The transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time, but it is worth every effort. Our coalition will stay until our work is done. And then we will leave — and we will leave behind a free Iraq."
FReepers I need not tell you this but we all know that journalism by the MSM is flat out dead!
The NYT admits that our pulling out of Iraq will result in chaos yet they insist that is the only strategy they will accept. Rather than continue the difficult but necessary progress to an orderly and independent Iraq they would rather have the country degenerate into chaos and all out war from which another Hussein could arise.
How could forget we when you keep reminding us.
Hey, remember Somalia? "Mission accomplished," then?
An assumption based on a conclusion based on a lie.
