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May 2, 2003 Yesterday, May 1, 2003, George W. Bush, President of these United States, touched down on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to make a speech to its crew, to the soon-to-return forces of Operation Iraqi Freedom, and to the country and the world. Dubya landed on Abe in a two-place fighter jet, an S-3B Viking. The president debarked from his plane grinning broadly, relaxed, confident, and at his ease. He looked like a man reborn, after months of international tension and the trials of war. He chatted casually with his Navy pilot-companion as they strolled across Abe's...