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Andrea Mitchell Mocks Bush With 'Mission Accomplished'
NewsBusters ^ | Mark Finkelstein

Posted on 05/02/2011 6:04:56 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest

Commenting on the death of Osama Bin Laden, Rep. Gary Ackerman has gloated: "this is the 'Mission Accomplished' moment President Bush only fantasized about." Could the Dem from New York have gotten the inspiration for his taunt from Andrea Mitchell?

The question arises because in the run-up to President Obama's announcement last night, Mitchell said something similar, if not quite as pointedly partisan.

Not only did Mitchell throw Mission Accomplished in Pres. Bush's face, she also, for purposes of taking another slap at Pres. Bush, misrepresented the history of Tora Bora. Mitchell claimed that John Kerry made it a 2004 campaign issue on the basis that OBL could have been killed or captured there "if troops had not been moved to Iraq." But the Battle of Tora Bora took place in 2001 and the Iraq war didn't start until 2003.

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TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: andreamitchell; binladen; georgewbush; leadingfrombehind; missionaccomplished; osama; osamabinladen
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To: wilco200
The comment should be “what took so long?”

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Well ain't that a kick in the gonads to our Men and Women who have worked so tirelessly to find a nettle in a haystack?

The Left have no respect for those actually defending our Country.

Have we forgotten how Obama and his cronies want to defund our Military and our defense system and how Hillary would not even talk or acknowledge our men and women in uniform when she was First Lady?

I've had it with this SPIN!

21 posted on 05/02/2011 6:22:34 AM PDT by not2worry (WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND)
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To: wilco200
Suppose he was captured.

Where would Obama have sent him for trial?? (Pretend that guantanamo is closed.)

NYC!!!!

22 posted on 05/02/2011 6:22:34 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Nip

And I THOUGHT the liberals said the war was in afghanistan. Also, the media were complicit in tying bush’s hands for his so-called unjust war in iraq.


23 posted on 05/02/2011 6:23:29 AM PDT by Blue Turtle
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To: not2worry

Stephen Heyward on NRO just blogged that some of intelligence that we used to get Obama came from GITMO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


24 posted on 05/02/2011 6:24:15 AM PDT by scbison
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The mission would’ve been accomplished if they brought a body back.

We require the same standard of evidence that Bush needed for WMD.


25 posted on 05/02/2011 6:25:30 AM PDT by fruser1
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To: not2worry
They had some analyst saying the primary clues were: No phone connection, no windows facing the road, burned their garbage....

Sounds just like my bros farm except he has 10 acres.

26 posted on 05/02/2011 6:26:35 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Reddy

Sick bast**** aren’t they.


27 posted on 05/02/2011 6:27:20 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I expect nothing less from this presstitute/Obama tout who is married to that senile dufus Alan Greenspan with his wildly low interest rates, who did nothing while the banksters ran wild


28 posted on 05/02/2011 6:27:54 AM PDT by dennisw (NZT - "works better if you're already smart")
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To: muawiyah

Yeah, everything is always BUSH’S FAULT according to zero, except when there is some credit to be taken.


29 posted on 05/02/2011 6:28:29 AM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Leftist haters doing best what Hate filled Leftists do.

As if 0bama would have had the ability to get him, had W not put the apparatus in place.


30 posted on 05/02/2011 6:28:57 AM PDT by R0CK3T
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

31 posted on 05/02/2011 6:29:21 AM PDT by Iron Munro (The purpose of fighting is to win. There is no possible victory in defense. -- John Steinbeck)
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To: dennisw
The information came from a Bin Laden Courier at Gitmo

The first thing Obama was going to shut down.

32 posted on 05/02/2011 6:30:03 AM PDT by scooby321
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To: scbison

The Dem congress fought tooth and nail against the intelligence community.


33 posted on 05/02/2011 6:30:13 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I wonder if anyone told the snarky b!tch Bush laid the groundwork for the intel operations that led to bin Laden’s demise.


34 posted on 05/02/2011 6:30:16 AM PDT by ScottinVA (Imagine.... a world without islam.)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Hey Andrea, maybe if you and the rest of the anti-war, anti-Gitmo media and democrats didn’t undermine PRESIDENT BUSH and his military operations every step of the way, he might have got him on his watch. obama gets zero credit from me. Thank you Navy Seals and thank you President Bush.


35 posted on 05/02/2011 6:30:50 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Yeah, and Falstaff killed Hotspur.


36 posted on 05/02/2011 6:30:50 AM PDT by Dr. Sivana (There is no salvation in politics.)
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To: scooby321

Bingo...


37 posted on 05/02/2011 6:31:12 AM PDT by JaneNC (I)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Sounds like waterboarding zaquiri is what really got him. Maybe Andrea will report that?

God Bless Our Special Forces


38 posted on 05/02/2011 6:32:00 AM PDT by bray (The Country Club can hold THEIR noses this election)
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To: bray
Sounds like waterboarding zaquiri is what really got him.

Which is exactly why Rummy beat obama to the punch.

39 posted on 05/02/2011 6:33:19 AM PDT by jersey117
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To: Psycho_Bunny
Mitchell. I haven’t heard that prize skank’s name in a while.

Last I heard someone was using her pelt for cage bedding...

40 posted on 05/02/2011 6:33:38 AM PDT by 4woodenboats (Obama.....a perfect example of why you can't trust someone that won't look you in the eye)
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