Remeber back in the day when George Bush landed a jet on a carrier and there was a big banner that read, “MISSION ACCOMPLISHED”? Those were some good times. I wonder whatever happened to that banner?
Probably going to wait until 11/03/04 to bring it back out again.
Probably stayed with the ship, whose mission was indeed accomplished.
Knowing the general political feeling in the bay area, it was probably stolen and is being kept in a safe place. If GW graces us with is presence again, it’ll be served to him. With a salt shaker.
The banner has been cut up and is being used to patch the holes in this administration’s credibility.
I wanna know what happened to the Trip to Mars … .
The Trip to Mars week was my favorite week of the Bush presidency.
Remember that groovy UN presentation from Powell?
Good times, good times.
Crow and banner pie! Nummy!
At least you’re not being hypocritical: you’re perfectly okay with his equivocation.
Unfortunately, it’s an ambiguous slogan — particularly given that it was emblazoned on a ship returning from the combat theater — and therefore open to interpretation. You would have to call all interpretations equivocal if you’re to use the term at all.
Tony Blair has always maintained there are WMD’s in Iraq:
Tuesday March 18, 2003
Blair: “Then, a week later, Saddam’s son-in-law, Hussein Kamal, defected to Jordan. He disclosed a far more extensive BW (biological weapons) programme and for the first time said Iraq had weaponised the programme; something Saddam had always strenuously denied. All this had been happening whilst the inspectors were in Iraq. Kamal also revealed Iraq’s crash programme to produce a nuclear weapon in 1990.”
Wednesday, 17 December, 2003
In an interview with the British Forces Broadcasting Service, Mr Blair had said: "The Iraq Survey Group has already found massive evidence of a huge system of clandestine laboratories, workings by scientists, plans to develop long range ballistic missiles.
“Now, frankly, these things weren’t being developed unless they were developed for a purpose.”
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3326077.stm
Sunday, 25 January, 2004
Tony Blair has said he “has absolutely no doubt” the intelligence about weapons of mass destruction he received in the run-up to the Iraq war was genuine.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/3427151.stm
Tue 27 Jan 2004
…Jack Straw, the Foreign Secretary, insisted that evidence of Saddam’s nuclear, biological or chemical arsenal would still emerge.
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=100192004
Friday March 5, 2004
Blair: "…the fact that though we know Saddam had WMD; we haven’t found the physical evidence of them in the 11 months since the war. But in fact, everyone thought he had them. That was the basis of UN Resolution 1441.
It’s just worth pointing out that the search is being conducted in a country twice the land mass of the UK, which David Kay’s interim report in October 2003 noted, contains 130 ammunition storage areas, some covering an area of 50 square miles, including some 600,000 tons of artillery shells, rockets and other ordnance, of which only a small proportion have as yet been searched in the difficult security environment that exists."
And finally an incredible admission:
Tuesday March 18, 2003
Blair: “I have never put our justification for action as regime change.”
Monday September 20, 2004
The documents from the Cabinet Office and Foreign Office suggest that in March 2002 Mr Blair was concerned primarily about regime change rather than, as he subsequently said, weapons of mass destruction. Invasion simply for regime change would have been contrary to international law.
The Foreign Office yesterday acknowledged the documents were genuine but stressed they were only a snapshot of thinking at a particular time.
Sorry if that was a hijack.
I needed to vent, and the reminder of Bush using a simplistic slogan just set me off.
They just can’t bear to apologise, can they?
Nope.