# More Bush backpeddaling ? Iraq going well ?

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**Category:** Great Debates\
**Created:** [October 29, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bush-backpeddaling-iraq-going-well/210306 "2003-10-29T20:37:16Z")\
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**Author:** ![Rashak\_Mani](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/ea666f/32.png) [@Rashak\_Mani](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Rashak_Mani)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 8:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bush-backpeddaling-iraq-going-well/210306/1 "2003-10-29T20:37:16Z")

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[Mission Accomplished Sign](http://edition.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/mission.accomplished/index.html)

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> The president told reporters the sign was put up by the Navy, not the White House.

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> Navy and administration sources said that though the banner was the Navy’s idea, the White House actually made it.

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> Assigning responsibility elsewhere, especially to the military, is not a typical move for the Bush administration and raised suspicions among critics.

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> “Today, we heard him try to walk away from the USS Abraham Lincoln ‘end of major combat operations’ announcement, absurdly claiming that the White House was not responsible for the ‘Mission Accomplished’ banner that decorated the flight deck,” Dean said.

One must wonder why so much debate on who dunnit… same change of speech we have seen before now that Iraq isn’t so rosy. So issue for debate:

Why so much haggling over who dunnit ? What is Bush trying not to “stick” onto him ? Why does the Bush admin. care so much for avoiding clear language and position as regards Iraq ?

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**Author:** ![Mehitabel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/8797f3/32.png) [@Mehitabel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mehitabel)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 8:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bush-backpeddaling-iraq-going-well/210306/2 "2003-10-29T20:55:37Z")

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**Rashak** , there’s already a Pit thread on that banner. IJS.

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**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\
**Post date:** [October 29, 2003, 9:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/more-bush-backpeddaling-iraq-going-well/210306/3 "2003-10-29T21:08:06Z")

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> \*\*[President Bush, Ambassador Bremer Discuss Progress in Iraq\*\*](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2003/10/20031027-1.html)
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> There are terrorists in Iraq who are willing to kill anybody in order to stop our progress. The more successful we are on the ground, the more these killers will react.
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> Again, I will repeat myself, that the more progress we make on the ground, the more free the Iraqis become, the more electricity is available, the more jobs are available, the more kids that are going to school, the more desperate these killers become, because they can’t stand the thought of a free society.

So, “Hell yeah Iraq’s going well!”