# Mission Accomplished! **URL:** \ **Category:** Great Debates\ **Created:** [June 9, 2006, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-accomplished/359995 "2006-06-09T01:13:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![What\_the](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f4b2a3/32.png) [@What\_the](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/What_the)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-accomplished/359995/1 "2006-06-09T01:13:22Z")
With the death of Zarqawi, GWB missed a perfect opportunity to declare another mission accomplished and point to the many missions ahead of us in the War on Terror. Don’t you think? ---
**Author:** ![BrainGlutton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/82dd89/32.png) [@BrainGlutton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BrainGlutton)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-accomplished/359995/2 "2006-06-09T21:49:27Z")
😕 From what I heard, W did exactly what you are suggesting, minus the exact words “mission accomplished” – a wise omission, considering how he’s spoiled the phrase. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 10:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-accomplished/359995/3 "2006-06-09T22:21:45Z")
The Bush admin.'s piss-poor approval rating is due in no small part to declaring victories about a decade in advance any resolution one way or the other. Reality keeps getting in the way of stated accomplishments, to what would be comical effect if the events weren’t so tragic. I’m not sure if Bush has much left to lose in terms of credibility, but if he’s got any political capital left, it won’t be served by yet another woefully premature and patently inaccurate assertion about how well everything is going in Iraq and TWAT. ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 9, 2006, 10:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-accomplished/359995/4 "2006-06-09T22:26:48Z")
[Today’s Prophetic Remarks by President Bush](http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060609/dcf026.html?.v=51): > [@](#): > > we’re doing the right thing. And people are going to look back at this moment in history and say a democracy in Iraq helped change the world for the better and helped provide security. It certainly helped address the simmering resentment that exists in a part of a region that for too long has been ignored. ---
**Author:** ![Revenant\_Threshold](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/f1d935/32.png) [@Revenant\_Threshold](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Revenant_Threshold)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 12:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-accomplished/359995/5 "2006-06-10T00:04:08Z")
How exactly did democracy in Iraq (or the political system at all) aid in the death of Zaqawi? A missile strike and then follow-up ground mission doesn’t exactly require the democratic expression of the people. ---
**Author:** ![Loopydude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/e56c9b/32.png) [@Loopydude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loopydude)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 12:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-accomplished/359995/6 "2006-06-10T00:23:30Z")
[QUOTE=Squink] [Today’s Prophetic Remarks by President Bush](http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/060609/dcf026.html?.v=51): [/QUOTE] Damn! And my prediction Bush would shut his fool mouth about the future proves to be incorrect! ---
**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\ **Post date:** [June 10, 2006, 1:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-accomplished/359995/7 "2006-06-10T01:51:52Z")
[QUOTE=Loopydude] Damn! And my prediction Bush would shut his fool mouth about the future proves to be incorrect! [/QUOTE] For some people, grandiosity is _highly_ addictive. Bush appears to be one of those people. He’ll keep up the rhetoric, even when it hurts him. ---
**Author:** ![GrizzRich](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/7ba0ec/32.png) [@GrizzRich](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GrizzRich)\ **Post date:** [June 11, 2006, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/mission-accomplished/359995/8 "2006-06-11T09:48:27Z")
[QUOTE=Loopydude] Damn! And my prediction Bush would shut his fool mouth about the future proves to be incorrect! [/QUOTE] My sentiments exactly. From the same article… > [@](#): > > …when we fight the war on terror … -ism… it’s “terror-ISM” One can’t have a war on a _feeling_. Do ANY of GWB’s handlers actually UNDERSTAND the english language? see?!.. THIS is what happens when you supress a pet-peeve for too long!