Monday, April 29, 2013 8:26:51 PM
10th Anniversary of bin-Laden's "Mission Accomplished" FIASCO
Mon Apr 29, 2013 at 03:13 PM PDT
by DaneJaneiro
In two days, I'm sure there will be ample note of the 10th anniversary of the "Mission Accomplished" speech.
All the great irony and infamy of that moment will garner the attention it deserves, especially in light of the opening of Bush 43's Presidential library last week.
But today is the 10th anniversary of a real and sustained victory. On this date in 2003, the press buried the story of the US withdrawal from its redoubt in Saudi Arabia. This was Osama bin-Laden's greatest victory-really the one he sought. And the fact that the Cheney-Bush administration buried the news in the run up the Commander Codpiece's ersatz victory dance indicates that Cheney and Rumsfeld and the others who were running things at the time had some sense of the stinging defeat we had suffered.
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http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/29/1205543/-10th-Anniversary-of-bin-Laden-s-Mission-Accomplished
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America signals withdrawal of troops from Saudi Arabia
Oliver Burkeman in Washington
The Guardian, Wednesday 30 April 2003 03.31 EDT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/apr/30/usa.iraq
Mon Apr 29, 2013 at 03:13 PM PDT
by DaneJaneiro
In two days, I'm sure there will be ample note of the 10th anniversary of the "Mission Accomplished" speech.
All the great irony and infamy of that moment will garner the attention it deserves, especially in light of the opening of Bush 43's Presidential library last week.
But today is the 10th anniversary of a real and sustained victory. On this date in 2003, the press buried the story of the US withdrawal from its redoubt in Saudi Arabia. This was Osama bin-Laden's greatest victory-really the one he sought. And the fact that the Cheney-Bush administration buried the news in the run up the Commander Codpiece's ersatz victory dance indicates that Cheney and Rumsfeld and the others who were running things at the time had some sense of the stinging defeat we had suffered.
[ . . . ]
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2013/04/29/1205543/-10th-Anniversary-of-bin-Laden-s-Mission-Accomplished
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America signals withdrawal of troops from Saudi Arabia
Oliver Burkeman in Washington
The Guardian, Wednesday 30 April 2003 03.31 EDT
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2003/apr/30/usa.iraq
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