Saturday, December 09, 2006

"Mission Accomplished"

I mentioned that I thought it deplorable for Bush to have made his Mission Accomplished declaration.

In response, anonymous said...

seems to me that at the time bush gave the 'mission accomplished' speech, the mission had been accomplished. future missions were not accomplished, but removing saddam from power was mission accomplished at that time.

Except that the FIRST SENTENCE of Bush's speech, given on May 1, 2003 is this:

Admiral Kelly, Captain Card, officers and sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln, my fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.

Major combat operations have ended, he said. Have prevailed. As though it were over. He knowingly and purposely made every implication that "major combat operations" in Iraq had ceased; this speech did not imply they would resume within hours and continue indefinitely, as has been the case.

Let's not get into the slippery slope of semantics. He made a purposely misleading speech.

And even the White House seems to agree.

6 Comments:

Blogger kristy said...

well, i care. i care when the white house censors its own video.

they weren't "wrong" about the mission being accomplished, they were LYING. how could major combat operations be over and then -- what? -- magically resume?

at the time bush gave this speech, there was no plan for ending the war. there wasn't then, and there isn't now.

8:44 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

No, major combat ops didn't magically resume, they were required because the nature of our enemy is so vile, insidious, and evil. Speaking of lying, and I quote: "But I want to say one thing to the American people. I want you to listen to me. I'm going to say this again. I did not have sexual relations with that woman, Miss Lewinsky. I never told anybody to lie, not a single time; never. These allegations are false. And I need to go back to work for the American people."

8:13 AM  
Blogger Ish said...

Anon 8:13a,

Oh, right. The old, "but Clinton lied about a blowjob!" chestnut. Well, thanks for bringing that to the table.

Are you actually making the argument that Clinton lying about the nature of his relationship with Monica Lewinsky can be equated to Bush and Co. lying to the country and to the community of nations to justify invading another country at a cost of hundreds of billions of dollars and hundreds of thousands of lives?

10:20 AM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

yes, i am. see, while clinton was busy getting his cock sucked, bin laden and co began killing us and still are killing us. and yes, i am lumping bin laden in with iraq. go on, i dare you.

2:51 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

saddam looked so darn cute swinging from that rope. mission accomplished. lieberman/gore in 08!

5:24 PM  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

well Said

9:04 PM  

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