Poor Baby
Happy anniversary! What anniversary, you ask? Why, it was five years ago today that the Iraq war ended! You remember -- there was a banner, and an aircraft carrier, and a presidential declaration that "in the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed." These last five years of peace, prosperity, Iraqi democracy, an end to a root-cause of terrorism, and all the rest? Sweet.
Oh, that was all a tissue of lies? I forgot. Luckily, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino knows who the real victim is: Bush. Quoth NPR:
"President Bush is well aware that the banner should have been much more specific and said `mission accomplished' for these sailors who are on this ship on their mission," White House press secretary Dana Perino said Wednesday. "And we have certainly paid a price for not being more specific on that banner. And I recognize that the media is going to play this up again tomorrow, as they do every single year."
I know! The world is just so unfair to President Bush. After all, he sleeps in a downy bed on high-thread-count sheets -- unlike 4056 Americans who did what he told them to do -- and sometimes his sleep is disturbed.
Comments:
Posted 05/01/2008 10:47am with
’ . . . major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. . .
Posted 05/01/2008 05:39pm with
But, Bush had an election to win, and what better way than to dress up in military drag, use a bunch of sailors as photo op props, and pretend to be the conquering hero? Either that, or he was trying to make up some of that time he missed in ‘72.