Rumsfeld Admits "Mission Accomplished" was Administration's Idea 
Yeah, we knew it all along, but now they've actually admitted it.
"Remember that great 'Mission Accomplished' banner on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, when President Bush dramatically landed there to give his speech announcing the end of 'major combat operations' in Iraq?The White House said the banner was not its doing and must have been the Navy's idea.
Now we find out, in Bob Woodward 's new book 'State of Denial,' that wasn't the case. None other than Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld, on the record, tells Woodward that 'I took 'Mission Accomplished' out' upon reading a draft of the speech. 'And I fixed it and sent it back. They fixed the speech,' he said, 'but not the sign.'"
Is there anything about which this administration hasn't lied?
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