White House says it has paid a price for 'Mission Accomplished' banner five years ago

Thursday 01st May, 07:29 AM JST

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Sarge at 10:50 PM JST - 1st May

"the insurgents stood up and slapped the United States right between the eyes"

And they still control zero towns in Iraq, because they've been slapped upside the head by the United States.
adaydream at 11:20 PM JST - 1st May

Sarge:

U. S. Forces up to 160,000 strong and can't stop the insurgents. Who controls who?
usaexpat at 12:14 AM JST - 2nd May

Bush "uh no, I didn't mean the war I meant the carrier's 10 month mission was accomplished" You liar, incompetent failure what else can I throw out. The only price I'm willing to accept from this administration is a pound of flesh. They should all be rounded up and stoned in the town square.
usaexpat at 12:17 AM JST - 2nd May

More to the point I am not a pacifist the reason I won't forgive the foray in Iraq is because it has weakened America. I personally am for anything even if it's not so nice that builds America's fortunes and power and Iraq doesn't pass the test. A commander in chief who diminishes the country needs to be held to account.
adaydream at 03:50 AM JST - 2nd May

And remember the grand Fly-In of george bush. Strutting around in the flight suit on the deck of the USS Lincoln.

News media just going gah-gah. The same news media who failed to do their job of investigative reporting and courted the administration for all the WMD information that was fabricated.

All the republicans drooling as their war leader made an ass out of himself.
WhiteHawk at 03:58 AM JST - 2nd May

Don't feel bad, adaydream, that same news media failed to do their job of investigative reporting when Clinton, Gore, Kennedy and every other democrat in the senate were saying the exact same things about Iraq's WMDs when Clinton was president.
adaydream at 04:07 AM JST - 2nd May

Same...same.
grsmaz at 04:08 AM JST - 2nd May

Bush says mission accomplished, Israel say 911 good. At one point the majority of Americans though Saddam was behind 911.
* Nearing the second anniversary of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, seven in 10 Americans continue to believe that Iraq's Saddam Hussein had a role in the attacks*,

http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp-dyn/A32862-2003Sep5?language=printer

Who is dumber the president or the people?
DanManjt at 08:02 AM JST - 2nd May

rjd -

Not farce. Tragedy.
Sarge at 08:55 AM JST - 2nd May

"Who is dumber( , ) the president or the people?"

Yeah, well, these dumb people will continue to drive the world's #1 economy and continue to be the leading light and hope of the world.
zurcronium at 11:59 AM JST - 2nd May

the people who voted for bush were duped, and those that still believe that the worse president in mondern times is OK are dumb.

Bush did accomplish his mission, his only mission in life, and that is to fail at everything he does.
redacted at 12:12 PM JST - 2nd May

"the people who voted for bush [Bush] were duped, and those that still believe that the worse [worst?] president in mondern [modern] times is OK are dumb."

Not exactly making a very good case there...
Sarge at 06:23 PM JST - 2nd May

zurcronium - Bush didn't fail to get re-elected a year and a half after the start of the Iraq war, did he?
Betzee at 12:14 AM JST - 4th May

As the NYT's observes today, "President Bush will never live down 'Mission Accomplished' — and should not. When the White House’s spinners spun that claim five years ago (remember the aircraft carrier?), it seemed cocky and premature. As Mr. Bush continues his $526 billion war-without-end in Iraq, it seems stunningly deceitful.

The only mission that needs to be accomplished is an orderly exit from Iraq, and Mr. Bush is no closer to acknowledging that reality. Neither is Senator John McCain....."

Regardless of who wins in November, the troops will come home. An ailing economy cannot support a $3 billion a week outlay for a war the American public became indifferent to long ago. The Iraqi government is now flush with petrodollars. Yet there has been no accountability on how that money is spent (or where it ends up). Americans should be engaged in efforts the minimize the potential for expanded conflict after we leave and cease spouting the "we won't settle for anything less than total victory" slogans.
Simon_Foston at 01:07 AM JST - 4th May

zurcronium - Bush didn't fail to get re-elected a year and a half after the start of the Iraq war, did he?

He didn't fail to get 71% disapproval ratings in recent opinion polls either (http://edition.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/05/01/bush.poll/index.html), if anything those liberal media people say matters to you. That election was the Democrats' to lose, which they did in their usual fine style.