E&P: Back in the Days of 'Mission Accomplished': How One Paper Covered Bush Declaration...

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Back in the Days of 'Mission Accomplished': How One Paper Covered Bush Declaration Four Years Ago

By Greg Mitchell

Published: May 01, 2007 10:25 AM ET
NEW YORK Today marks the fourth anniversary of President Bush’s jet landing on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln and his speech declaring major fighting in Iraq over, all in front of a giant “Mission Accomplished” banner.

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Since then, it has become -- during four more years of death and war -- a symbol of American hubris and setbacks in Iraq. Today it is often lampooned as a tragic “photo op.” Rock singer Neil Young, in a song referencing the event, sings, "History is a cruel judge of overconfidence."

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With that in mind, here are excerpts revealing how one newspaper, The New York Times, covered the event and aftermath four years ago. They include this nugget: "The Bush administration is planning to withdraw most United States combat forces from Iraq over the next several months and wants to shrink the American military presence to less than two divisions by the fall, senior allied officials said today."

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Editorial, May 2

As presidential spectacles go, it would be hard to surpass George Bush's triumphant ''Top Gun'' visit to the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln yesterday off the California coast. President Bush flew out to the giant aircraft carrier dressed in full fighter-pilot regalia as the ''co-pilot'' of a Navy warplane. After a dramatic landing on the compact deck -- a new standard for high-risk presidential travel -- Mr. Bush mingled with the ship's crew, then later welcomed home thousands of cheering sailors and aviators on the flight deck in a nationally televised address.

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Letter to the Editor, May 3

Re: ''Bush Declares 'One Victory in a War on Terror' '' (front page, May 2):

Some unanswered questions remain: Where are the weapons of mass destruction? What evidence makes Iraq ''an ally of Al Qaeda''? Where is Saddam Hussein? Where is Osama bin Laden? Who is next?

Martin Deppe
Chicago

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E&P Editor Greg Mitchell tours New Orleans, 20 months after Katrina, declares "Mission Not Accomplished."

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[Kolesar]

1. The NY Times sacked their editor since then, IIRC

But it may have been due to another f-up at the NY Times.

[Octafish]

2. Kick to the pants of the warmongering traitors...

...Read and remember, America.

It's exactly what They don't want you to do.