Not exactly a day of celebration....
(courtesy of tellusthemission.org)
DSCC:
Four years ago today, President Bush declared under a "Mission Accomplished" sign that major combat operations in Iraq had ended. In the four years since, Americans have seen that the mission was in fact far from accomplished. But instead of learning their lesson, the president and the Republicans in the Senate who want to keep giving him a blank check are still distorting the facts about what's happening in Iraq - making claim after claim of progress, when the facts on the ground tell a far different story. Read on...
Democratic Caucus's Senate Journal: Mission Accomplished?
Media Matters has a great round up of the media's fawning acceptance of Bush's premature victory statement. Ava has a new video called Mission Accomplished - 4 Years Later
Greg Mitchell takes a look back at the NY Times and their coverage...
