‘dead-enders', ‘in the last throes’, ‘stuff happens’, ‘turned a corner', ‘Mission accomplished’

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http://www.khaleejtimes.ae/DisplayArticle.asp?xfile=data/theworld/2007/September/theworld_September367.xml§ion=theworld


The administration has consistently downplayed the insurgency. In June 2003, as roadside bombs and ambushes of US patrols mounted, then defence secretary Donald Rumsfeld dismissed the attacks as the futile work of ‘dead-enders.’

Two years later, Vice President Dick Cheney said the insurgency was ‘in the last throes’ and 12 months on, said Iraq had ‘turned a corner.’

Memorably, Rumsfeld said in April 2003, as violent looting across Iraq devastated vital infrastructure and eroded Iraqis’ confidence in their new US overseers, that ‘stuff happens.’

A month after Rumsfeld dismissed the orgy of crime as the price of freedom, Bush landed on a US aircraft carrier to say: ‘Major combat operations in Iraq have ended.’ Behind him an enormous banner read: ‘Mission accomplished.’

Nobody today in the US administration says the mission is over.

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1. Things sure do go wrong if you get mixed up with Bush

If you live through it I would not put it on your resume that you worked for him. It is like the air around him is a disaster.

[Major Hogwash]

2. "Return to success" - WTF? Who wrote that title, Rove? Cheney? Barney?

I mean, he can blame a lot of things on the poor dog, but not the title for his address last night to the nation.

"Return to success"?

Does this mean he thinks we should invade Vietnam again?

Where is the freakin' logic in that?