You remember “Banner-gate”: the controversy over the White House’s shifting explanations for the now-infamous “Mission Accomplished” banner on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln that President Bush stood before in his carefully plotted photo-op exactly five years ago tomorrow.
Knowing what’s coming, White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said 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 their mission. And we have certainly paid a price for not being more specific on that banner. And I recognize that the media is going to play this up again tomorrow, as they do every single year.”
It’s the anniversary of Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” photo-op.
But wait!
Neo-cons, the gift that keeps on giving eh?
I actually kinda hope that Johnny Boy McCain wins, that way we’ll get one of these every couple of months.
And Tatty agreed with all this rubbish. Which is why he was never listed as one of t5he world’s ten most influential people. Him and Hyacynth musta been screaming at the tele in the Wollstonecraft cottasge this morning as they watched the Packer Puppets report it, somewhat demeaningly, no doubt on Ratty’s telephoned instructions. No wonder thje world calls Bush the American Imbecile.
Might I humbly suggest you people get over your banner fetish, it is starting to look silly, Iraq gets better daily, Al Sadr’s JM gets significantly degraded daily and his supposed loyal subjects are delighted and all you people can point to is “ahh but they had “mission Accomplished” on the banner” – Whoopee!
Oh my, how naive…
This isn’t about the last war. This is about the next war.
The next war is the battle to keep McCain’s ageing posterior off the Oval Office swivel chair.
Trouble is, Kingsley, US voters have already made up their minds about the Iraq Fiasco. Al Sadr doesn’t loom very large in their thinking.
McCain has promised 100 more years of “Mission Accomplished”. The folks are very gun-shy about that prospect.
The Iraq Tar Baby is going to sink McCain and much of the GOP. The banner absurdity simply fans the flames of GOP annihilation
Good.
Yes Kingsley, we have always been at war with the Sadrists and we invaded Iraq to rid the world of the evil dictator Moqtada. It’s all becoming clearer by the day.
Might I humbly suggest you people get over your banner fetish, it is starting to look silly, Iraq gets better daily, Al Sadr’s JM gets significantly degraded daily and his supposed loyal subjects are delighted and all you people can point to is “ahh but they had “mission Accomplished” on the banner” – Whoopee!
Kingsley: last I heard, Sadr was cramming for his Ayatollah exams, and wasn’t playing a day-to-day role in Sadr City, or anywhere else in Iraq. No matter. If parliamentary delegations leave their own counrty to engage in peacetalks with him, then al-Sadr remains a very important person indeed.
Heard somewhere on the ether that 70% of Americans think Dubya is the worst president in history. It may have been in the headlines in the lead-up to Lateline or it could have been during the day. I’ve been engaged in a time consuming and frustrating domestic task all week so have lost all sense of time and proportion and can’t provide a link. Anyone mentioning curtains will be summarily executed!