 masbury says: If not, he reasons, "why did the banner on the aircraft carrier read 'Mission Accomplished'?" Gosh, it has to be true if the banner said so. Great clip!! I don't think this level of denial, revisionist memory and pure BS could ever be pointed out enough. Do not forget that things can still get worse and putting McCain in office will assure that. Do you want to look back at today as the good old days?? The sign was meant for the sailors on the ship. For them the mission was accomplished and over. But that makes the point even more strongly. When challenge by a reporter who points out that "Many say the conflict isn't over," McCain responds: "Then why was there a sign on the aircraft carrier that said 'Mission Accomplished'?" Clearly, McCain thought otherwise. That you know it and he didn't suggests, sillysam, that you might be better equipped to be Commander-in-Chief than he. Neither Bush nor McCain were talking about the mission of the ship. It was an announcement that "America and her allies have prevailed." "Major combat operations have ceased." When he received an advance copy of the speech, U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld took care to remove any use of the phrase "Mission Accomplished" in the speech itself. Later, when journalist Bob Woodward asked him about his changes to the speech, Rumsfeld responded:"IClearly, Rumsfeld was not saying the references to the ship's mission were "too conclusive" - for it was, indeed, finished. He knew it referred to the war itself. Scott McClellan told CNN "We took... |
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