Antiwar Group To Fly Planes Over GOP Debate With Banners Mocking "Mission Accomplished" Moment

[babylonsister]

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Antiwar Group To Fly Planes Over GOP Debate With Banners Mocking "Mission Accomplished" Moment
By Greg Sargent | bio

This is kind of fun. The antiwar group Americans Against Escalation in Iraq is planning to fly two planes in the skies above tonight's GOP debate in Los Angeles, complete with banners mocking President Bush's "mission accomplished" moment. From the group's release:

Two planes will circle the airspace over tonight’s GOP Presidential debate in Los Angeles with banners that read, “Republicans, Mission Accomplished?” and “McCain, Mission Accomplished?” The planes will take off from Simmi Airfield outside L.A. at 2:30pm and will circle the GOP Presidential Debate until its conclusion.

The best part is that the group needed to keep mum about the news until now out of fear that the skies above the debate would somehow get shut down if word of its plans leaked out.

[VP505]

1. I am surprised

that they (Republics) didn't get one of their political appointee hacks to pressure the FAA to restrict the air space over the event so something like this couldn't happen.