# Mission Accomplished, my Rosy Red Ass

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-accomplished-my-rosy-red-ass/384076>\
**Category:** The BBQ Pit\
**Created:** [December 14, 2006, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-accomplished-my-rosy-red-ass/384076 "2006-12-14T04:23:02Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/a9a28c/32.png) [@pseudotriton\_ruber\_ruber](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pseudotriton_ruber_ruber)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 7:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-accomplished-my-rosy-red-ass/384076/141 "2006-12-18T19:08:25Z")

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[QUOTE=Maureen]  
Admitting “I was wrong” is on a par with admitting you shot your neighbor’s wife and had sex with his dog.  
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Now that’s wrong! Admitting it, I mean. Make them prove it. Let me get that dog up on the witness stand, I’ll make a fool of her. (I would never have sex with a male dog–what do you think I am, a queer?)

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**Author:** ![Mighty\_Girl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/7bcc69/32.png) [@Mighty\_Girl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mighty_Girl)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-accomplished-my-rosy-red-ass/384076/142 "2006-12-18T19:39:14Z")

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[QUOTE=Maureen]  
Admitting “I was wrong” is on a par with admitting you shot your neighbor’s wife and had sex with his dog.  
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Not that there’s anything wrong with that. 😃

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Borgia](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/larry_borgia/32/156_2.png) [@Larry\_Borgia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Borgia)\
**Post date:** [December 18, 2006, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-accomplished-my-rosy-red-ass/384076/143 "2006-12-18T19:41:37Z")

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[QUOTE=black rabbit]  
The thread linked in that one is even better:

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=169260](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?s=&threadid=169260)  
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I don’t know whether to laugh or cry.

To throw the apologists a bone, they probably weren’t expecting the appalling levels of incompetence shown by the U.S. in the period after the seizing of Baghdad.

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