Tell truth about 'Mission Accomplished'

[Ronald Cherrycoke]

Originally Posted by Kitsune

Would you care to elaborate on what, exactly, this great revelation of yours changes? As far as I am aware, the meaning behind the banner doesn't change any of the content of the speech that Bush gave beneath it, nor does it change the original speech that was to be given that Rumsfeld felt the need to edit.

Cmdr. Conrad Chun, a Navy spokesman, defended the president's assertion.

"The banner was a Navy idea, the ship's idea," Chun said.

"The banner signified the successful completion of the ship's deployment," he said, noting the Abraham Lincoln was deployed 290 days, longer than any other nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in history.


Duh?....I guess a propaganda slogan by you and the left will always live on..in spite of facts.

[Kitsune]

Originally Posted by Ronald Cherrycoke

Duh?....I guess a propaganda slogan by you and the left will always live on..in spite of facts.

Thanks for clearing that up, Ronnie. From here on out, I'll be laughing at how the "guns are silent" and that "major operations have ended" in Iraq.