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Bush Library May Show 'Mission Accomplished' Banner From 2003 Iraq Speech
By Tom Diemer - Politics DailyThe infamous "Mission Accomplished" banner that was the backdrop for a 2003 speech as President George W. Bush declared the end of major combat operations in Iraq may wind up hanging in the planned Bush library in Dallas. The red, white and blue banner, initially stored by the National Archives, has been shipped to the temporary headquarters of the George W. Bush Presidential Center in Lewisville, Texas. Alan Lowe, director of the center, said a decision has yet to be made on whether or how to display it in the 227,000-square foot building, which is to open in 2013. The banner became the ...
Sarah Palin to Obama: Be Honest in Address To Nation
By Suzi Parker - Politics DailySarah Palin had some suggestions for President Barack Obama before he spoke to the nation Tuesday night about Iraq. In a Facebook post late Tuesday afternoon titled "Humility and Honesty About Iraq Can Inspire Trust," Palin said she wanted Obama to show "grace, humility and some honesty before the American people tonight. Please don't declare 'Mission Accomplished' and then saunter away with an assumption that your opposition to the Iraq strategy was key to our troops' success." Palin also wanted Obama to say he was wrong about the surge in 2007, when Obama wasn't 100 percent behind sending ...
Analysis: Obama 'Resigned' to Being Wartime President
By Andrea Stone - AOL NewsWASHINGTON (Aug. 31) -- When President Barack Obama addresses the nation from the Oval Office tonight to announce the formal end of combat in Iraq, he will sit where another Democratic commander in chief explained to the nation how another war had defeated his hopes for re-election. If the Vietnam War ended Lyndon Johnson's political career, it remains to be seen whether the continuing war in Afghanistan will contribute to making Obama, whose approval ratings hover below 50 percent, a one-term president. But there is one legacy he shares with Johnson and other recent Democratic presidents: a ...
Mission Accomplished in Iraq?
By not in system - AOL News(Aug. 19) -- Seven years and five months after the U.S. invaded Iraq, seven years and three months after President George W. Bush declared mission accomplished, and three years and eight months after Saddam Hussein was killed by hanging, the final officially designated U.S. combat brigade has left Iraq. Though this officially ends Operation Iraqi Freedom, 56,000 U.S. troops will remain, many in a de facto combat role. They will oversee an Iraq where sectarian deaths have dropped dramatically but brutal terrorist bombings persist, and where worsening political deadlock could endanger the ...
Last US Combat Brigade Leaves Iraq: Instant Reactions
By Carl Franzen - AOL News(Aug. 18) -- They're coming home -- early. On Wednesday evening in America, the Web lit up with the news that the final designated combat brigade, made up of some 4,000 U.S. soldiers, was leaving Iraq two weeks ahead of the Aug. 31 deadline set by President Obama. The historic moment, as MSNBC noted, effectively "... [Brings] to a close the active combat phase of a 7½-year war that overthrew the dictatorial regime of Saddam Hussein, forever defined the presidency of George W. Bush and left more than 4,400 American service members and tens of thousands of Iraqis dead." Of course, as the ...
Mission Accomplished? White House Touts Iraq, BP, Auto Industry Successes
By Alex Wagner - Politics DailyPresident Barack Obama wasn't exactly making a tailhook landing on an aircraft carrier and unfurling a "Mission Accomplished" banner, but the White House took aggressive steps this week to show the American public that it has achieved some very hard-won successes. On three major issues -- U.S. military engagement in the Middle East, the BP oil spill disaster, and the American economy -- the administration has finally gained some positive momentum after what has felt like a protracted period of Nothing Good Ever Happens. For a White House and Democratic Congress badly in need of ammo in the ...
Why the U.S. Drawdown in Iraq Is Met With Apathy
By Sarah Wildman - Politics DailyWhen the war in Iraq began in March 2003, the world seemed to explode in protest. Streets were clogged with angry mobs from Paris to New York, Berlin to Boston. Seventy-eight percent of the French disagreed with the war, London saw nearly a million protesters, New York's streets swelled with anti-war walkers. A year later, the 2004 elections were a showdown about a failed policy, knocking down one government (Spain) and roiling Washington. Our European allies found vocal segments of their populations in near full revolt from their partnership with the United States. For a few years, as the ...
John McCain, Mission Accomplished
By Dave - Politics DailyThis old quote might hurt a bit. And McCain was only saying what everyone, including Democrats and liberals thought at the time. Still, the quote is good enough to score a few points. The mission of course, was indeed to remove Saddam and his regime from power. The mistake was in assuming that alone was sufficient to turn Iraq into a nice peaceful arab state like Kuwait. Which turned out not to be the case. ...
WH: 'Mission Accomplished' Banner a Mistake
By Mark Impomeni - Politics DailyOne day before the fifth anniversary of President Bush's now infamous landing on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, the White House admitted that the "Mission Accomplished" banner, which hung behind him during a nationally televised speech declaring "major combat operations" in Iraq to be over, was a mistake. An exasperated White House Press Secretary, Dana Perino, answered reporters' questions in advance of the anniversary today."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 ...
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