Mission accomplished! De facto Commander-in-Chief George W. Bush (having received an unlawful advantage of 52 ineligible Electoral votes) lands on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, aboard a Lockheed S-3 Viking, dubbed Navy One. Bush proclaims, “Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United [s]tates and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country.”
NOTES:
- Such a theatrical stunt mimicking Christ’s descent to the Mount of Olives was totally unnecessary as the Abraham Lincoln was only 30 miles off the coast of San Diego, california, well within the 600-mile range of Marine One, the presidential helicopter fleet.
- Before “Mission Accomplished!” 104 members of the U.s. Armed Forces (private mercenaries) had died in Iraq; afterward another 3,424 were killed.
[restored 12/9/2023]
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References:
Address to the Nation on Iraq From the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln | The American Presidency Project
www.presidency.ucsb.edu/documents/address-the-nation-iraq-from-the-uss-abraham-lincoln
Mission Accomplished speech – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_speech
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