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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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1 posted on 05/02/2011 6:05:02 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest
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To: netmilsmom; Behind Liberal Lines; Miss Marple; an amused spectator; Diogenesis; MEG33; PGalt; ...

Andrea Mitchell mocks Pres. Bush with Mission Accomplished reminder. Ping to Today show list.


2 posted on 05/02/2011 6:06:02 AM PDT by governsleastgovernsbest (FReepmail or ping me to be put on my ping list for criticism of liberal media)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I heard it. Another one said the same. Couric said Obama did in 28 months what Bush failed to do in 8 years.


3 posted on 05/02/2011 6:06:08 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

I would love to piss on this people.


4 posted on 05/02/2011 6:06:32 AM PDT by Mouton (Voting is an opiate of the electorate. Nothing changes no matter who wins..)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Ok. Then demand the troops come home.


5 posted on 05/02/2011 6:08:23 AM PDT by InvisibleChurch (America, where are you now? We can't fight alone against the Monster)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Somebody ought to bitch slap Mrs. Greenspan............


6 posted on 05/02/2011 6:09:14 AM PDT by Red Badger (Mitt Romney: The Harold Stassen of the 21st century........)
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To: Mouton
Mission accomplished? Get rid of TSA and Homeland Security then.
7 posted on 05/02/2011 6:10:54 AM PDT by scooby321
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

And yet these people whine and boo hoo how everyone is “split” and there’s no consensus. Wonder why there’s dissension?


8 posted on 05/02/2011 6:13:33 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

The biggest mistake conservatives etc can make is to jump on the “ra ra USA” bandwagon or give Obama ANY credit.

The comment should be “what took so long?” and “ yeah, well what about $5 gas, a shi$$y economy, no jobs, etc etc” oh and what about that fraudulent BC?

Never let up! This is ALL politics with this guy and his supporters. They couldn’t give a rats ass about America.


9 posted on 05/02/2011 6:13:40 AM PDT by wilco200 (11/4/08 - The Day America Jumped the Shark)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Mitchell. I haven’t heard that prize skank’s name in a while.


10 posted on 05/02/2011 6:14:23 AM PDT by Psycho_Bunny (Public employee unions are the barbarian hordes of our time.)
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To: Sacajaweau

I just heard that it took Israel 15 years to find Eichmann. These people are idiots. They talk just to hear themselves talk and it seems that everytime they open their mouths they just show how ignorant they are.


11 posted on 05/02/2011 6:15:17 AM PDT by goldi (')
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Just saw a satirical picture on face book where GWB is standing at the podium with the Mission Accomplished sign behind him, and zero’s head is leaning in from the side so you can’t see GWB. /barf


12 posted on 05/02/2011 6:15:43 AM PDT by Reddy (B.O. stinks)
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To: Sacajaweau
Well, whatever the Democrats want to think but the mission started just over 5 years ago when this particular compound was under construction.

That means it's all George Bush's fault.

So the Democrat running dog lackeys of Osama Bin Ladin like Andrea Mitchell and Gary Ackermann can just go to Hell.

13 posted on 05/02/2011 6:18:49 AM PDT by muawiyah
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
Mitchell and Couric are despicable human being. Ugly inside and out.
14 posted on 05/02/2011 6:19:04 AM PDT by alice_in_bubbaland (DeMint/Ryan 2012!!!!!)
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To: Sacajaweau

I am just waiting for the United States Milary men and women to tell the real story and motivation behind tracking down and killing OBL.

Obama had nothing to do with this happening. It was the dedication of those who have been in the field since 9/11.

If Obama had his way we would have never gotten the itel from Gitmo to track OBL down.

This SPIN is making me sooooo upset.

The reality is that GWB Mission has been accomplished and unfortunately on Obama’s “watch”.

The only thing that Obama is “watching” is how to capitalize on any and every event possible to insure his reelection in 2012.

rant/off


15 posted on 05/02/2011 6:19:14 AM PDT by not2worry (WHAT GOES AROUND COMES AROUND)
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To: goldi

“I just heard that it took Israel 15 years to find Eichmann.”

Yeah...and we never caught Poncho Villa either...


16 posted on 05/02/2011 6:19:44 AM PDT by WKUHilltopper (Fix bayonets!)
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To: muawiyah

Let’s see the building permit!


17 posted on 05/02/2011 6:20:46 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
What the MSM never said and continues to refuse to report accurately is the “Mission Accomplished” banner was NOT Bush's idea. It was posted by the sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln as a statement that they had completed their first combat cruise.

The Bush administration started trying to dig out of that hole immediately but the image was too good to pass up.

Remember, Bush told us immediately after September 11, 2001 that it was going to be a long war that would take years and would be fought mainly in the shadows. Now why would he say something totally different less than two years later?

18 posted on 05/02/2011 6:20:54 AM PDT by Nip (TANSTAAFL)
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To: governsleastgovernsbest
It was only hours before the Obama media got into full swing along with all Democrat operatives after Obama made the announcement. The party line will be to crush all criticism or questioning of Obama in a big time effort to give a big boost to Obama being reelected in 2012.
19 posted on 05/02/2011 6:21:46 AM PDT by KeyLargo
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To: governsleastgovernsbest

Note to the Mitchell B*tch and the Ackerman Assh*le: If it wasn’t for “Rendition”, Gitmo, and Enhanced Interogation, all hallmarks of George Bush’s LEADERSHIP and GUTS, Bin Laden would still be walking this earth.

Sounded last night that Obamao did the deed all by himself , with one hand tied behind his back.

What a narcissist! New book coming out “How I Killed Bin Laden singlehandedly, with one hand tied behind my sorry Ass”


20 posted on 05/02/2011 6:22:17 AM PDT by wetgundog (" Extremism in the Defense of Liberty is no Vice")
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