INSTANT REPLAY: "Mission Accomplished??" YOU MAKE THE CALL

[TomClash]

See how absurd these comments appear some 17 months later.

President's Remarks

President Bush Announces Major Combat Operations in Iraq Have Ended
Remarks by the President from the USS Abraham Lincoln
At Sea Off the Coast of San Diego, California

. . .


"With new tactics and precision weapons, we can achieve military objectives without directing violence against civilians. No device of man can remove the tragedy from war; yet it is a great moral advance when the guilty have far more to fear from war than the innocent."

. . .

"In the images of celebrating Iraqis, we have also seen the ageless appeal of human freedom. Decades of lies and intimidation could not make the Iraqi people love their oppressors or desire their own enslavement. Men and women in every culture need liberty like they need food and water and air. Everywhere that freedom arrives, humanity rejoices; and everywhere that freedom stirs, let tyrants fear."

. . .

"In the battle of Afghanistan, we destroyed the Taliban, many terrorists, and the camps where they trained."

. . .

"Other nations in history have fought in foreign lands and remained to occupy and exploit. Americans, following a battle, want nothing more than to return home."

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. We need to do our freeper neighbors a favor

and demand that this little stunt be rebroadcast-after which we show what's happened in Iraq since then....

[rfranklin]

2. That photo op should be the centerpiece of ridiculing Bush and his...

vaunted leadership. As you say, contrast that ludicrous flyboy PR stunt with the casualties and chaos since.

[olddem43]

3. And don't forget to mention that the pilot that got him there is dead.

Killed in Iraq too.