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Who declared "Mission Accomplished"? Hint: It wasn't Bush.
He stood in front of a banner that read 'Mission Accomplished' and declared, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."
The banner was a graphic expression of what that entire stunt was all about.
More full text of the Mission Accomplished speech in the context that we all know that we live in a very graphic oriented world:
"Admiral Kelly, Captain Card, officers and sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln, my fellow Americans: Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed. And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country.
In this battle, we have fought for the cause of liberty, and for the peace of the world. Our nation and our coalition are proud of
this accomplishment — yet it is you, the members of the United States military, who achieved it. Your courage — your willingness to face danger for your country and for each other — made this day possible. Because of you, our nation is more secure. Because of you, the tyrant has fallen, and Iraq is free."
He used the phrase
'this accomplishment' in the text of the speech as you can see, and you are demanding that 'this accomplishment' was not referring to what was graphically displayed on the huge banner mounted on an aircraft carrier coming home from the 'mission' in Iraq.
Yet you have the gall to participate in a thread that chops up President Obama's kind words to the troops at at Ft Bragg when after nine more years, and after 4484 dead of our own, they were being praised and welcomed home actually finally seeing Bush's surrender agreement from December 2008 reach the full withdrawal stage of U.S. Combat troops from being killed and wounded in Iraq.
You did not complain that the title of this thread distorts what Obama actually said, " all of it has led to this moment of success.
Now, Iraq is not a perfect place. It has many challenges ahead. But we’re leaving behind a sovereign, stable and self-reliant Iraq, with a representative government that was elected by its people."
The liars hear left out the word "but" from a quote they cherry picked by Obama.
At that moment of 'success' in December 2011 Iraq was stable and governed enough that they would not allow US troops to stay one day longer than the end date of Bush's surrender agreement which was entrenched into Iraqi law in December of 2008 before Obama became Presudent.