Did Bush & Co. Doctor the ‘Mission Accomplished’ Video?
White House operatives apparently cropped out the "Mission Accomplished" banner from the video of Bush speaking aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in 2003. Inside Minnesota Politics' Mike McIntee has the scoop.
White House operatives apparently cropped out the “Mission Accomplished” banner from the video of Bush speaking aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln in 2003. Inside Minnesota Politics’ Mike McIntee has the scoop.
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Pentagon planners' use of such words as "freedom" and "hope" and catchy code names for U.S. operations reflects our utter hypocrisy.
The author imagines an alternative strategy for then-President George W. Bush on Sept. 12, 2001, and beyond.
Edward Snowden has reclaimed the phrase "mission accomplished" from a certain former president in a much different context, couching it in terms of his appraisal of the outcome of his leaks to the press of highly classified information from his former employer, the National Security Agency.
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