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Rumsfeld Admits "Mission Accomplished" was Administration's Idea Email Print

By Tom Ball
10/03/2006 08:56:37 AM EST

Photobucket - Video and Image HostingYeah, we knew it all along, but now they've actually admitted it.

The Washington Post reports:

"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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Rumsfeld Admits "Mission Accomplished" was Administration's Idea | 1 comment (1 topical, editorial, 0 hidden)
Maybe we should post the 10 Commandments (none / 0)
In a lot of public places, just so we can have a handy spot to check off all the commandments the Republicans have broken so often.

Bear false witness? Check.
Kill?  Check.
Stealing?  Check.
Coveting?  Check.

Georgie has also been pretty snide to ol' Dad, so I'd give a check on that "honoring your father and mother" box as well.  And considering Cheney's mouth, I'd bet on the "taking the Lord's name in vain."

by Devilstower on 10/03/2006 12:06:28 PM EST

Rumsfeld Admits "Mission Accomplished" was Administration's Idea | 1 comment (1 topical, 0 editorial, 0 hidden)
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