5 Years Ago Today: Bush Declares Mission Accomplished

Published May 1, 2008 in George W. Bush, Iraq and John McCain.

Remember we won the war (we even got a strategy for VICTORY two years later). No wonder John McCain wants 100 years more of it.

Over 3,500 servicemembers have died since Bush declared “Mission Accomplished”.

Good night, and good luck.

1 Duros62
May 1st, 2008 at 11:37 am

BAGHDAD — As Congress gears up to debate the Bush administration’s latest request for an additional $108 billion in war funding for Iraq and Afghanistan, Iraqis are fuming at suggestions being floated by lawmakers that Baghdad should start paying a share of the war’s costs by providing cheap fuel to the U.S. military.

“America has hardly even begun to repay its debt to Iraq,” said Abdul Basit, the head of Iraq’s Supreme Board of Audit, an independent body that oversees Iraqi government spending. “This is an immoral request because we didn’t ask them to come to Iraq, and before they came in 2003 we didn’t have all these needs.”
2 Nimrod Gently
May 1st, 2008 at 7:19 pm

One year later, he got seriously and legitimately re-elected. Michael Dukakis screamed in rage and despair, but no-one heard him.
3 williver ollis
May 1st, 2008 at 10:33 pm

We’ve been basking in the sunny light of our strategy for winning for five straight years. This is what winning looks like, folks. Dunno why the cut ‘n’ runners can’t recognize success when they stare it in the face.

Oliver Willis