A Navy ship with a sign saying “Mission Accomplished”? SO WHAT! Its the Traditional Report given by a Naval Command to it’s upstream Chain of Command, including the Commander in Chief.....Why you, and the left, have your panties in a bunch over this is beyond me.....oh yeah, I forgot....a terminal case of BDS...... I meaqn it’s not like we’re trying to give Bush a Noble Peace Prize for doing nothing.........
You keep saying the sign was “100’ long” which is pure hyperbole on your part. The banner was hung on the forward edge of the conning tower and is about 26-30’ long x 4-5’ wide. Conning towers are less than 40’ wide because any wider would encroach on the width of the flight deck which is at a premium for flight operations anyway, besides a greater width is not needed for the watch to con the ship, and is an aerodynamic impediment to forward speed ....
Photos of Naval ships on the internet are often their official photo from the Naval Photo Archives...search there all you want.....you’ll never see any sign or banner on them, doesn’t prove, or disprove a thing....... why don’t you run yourself down to a naval home port and greet a Carrier returning home from a war cruise and then tell me what you see....you’ll also have the pleasure of meeting our heros firsthand, and have the pleasure of thanking them firsthand as a side benefit......
The Dems/MSM seeing Bush’s popularity among the troops/sailors, his image as a fighter pilot, and the success of the armed forces in defeating the murderous Iraqi regime in record time, and with minimal combat losses despite the Dems dire predictions of huge combat losses, and their hopes for military setbacks, sought to deny both Bush’s and the military, a celebration of the end of major military operations in Iraq.
To this end they chose to spin the term “Mission Accomplished” to the generally unknowlegible John Q Public to mean that Bush was prematurely declaring total victory in, not only Iraq, but also the War on Terror. Neither Bush nor the Navy ever made that claim.....
That you choose to accept their spin without question is quite telling as to your thought process, and forms the basis for my calling you a cool-ade drinker....SengirV has a green mustache, SengirV has a green mustache....
That I do not accept this, or any other Democrat spin is, in your mind, “unquestioning devotion” which in this context, a label I will proudly wear!
Me change your mind? Not possible....cool-ade has reportedly had that effect on its users.....
News flash....Optical Rectitus is treatable if detected early .
Hmmm, W himself admitted it was a mistake and sent the wrong message. Yet I'm the leftist for agreeing with him? *rolls-eyes*