'Mission Accomplished' banner could go up in Bush library

[sabra]

Source: USA Today

As former president George W. Bush broke ground Tuesday in Dallas for his presidential library, officials weighed whether or not to display one item that few know is being held in storage there: the "Mission Accomplished" banner.

The banner was the backdrop aboard the USS Lincoln during Bush's televised speech May 1, 2003, to proclaim the end of major combat in Iraq. It caused controversy in the months that followed when violence in Iraq spiraled.

The banner now sits in storage and will become part of the library's collection. A decision on how or whether to display the red-white-and-blue banner hasn't been made, said Alan Lowe, director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum.

Lowe, who is employed by the National Archives, a federal agency, said the military shipped several items, including the banner, to the archives in 2005. About six months ago, the archives transferred the banner to the temporary site for the library in Lewisville, Texas. The permanent library, the George W. Bush Presidential Center, will be on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas. It is to open in 2013.

Read more: http://www.usatoday.com/news/military/2010-11-17-banner17_ST_N.htm

[Demeter]

1. That would Be Stupid

which would make it totally appropriate, actually.

[HughBeaumont]

2. "Well, isn't THAT just the cat's ass??" - Red Forman.

[onehandle]

8. Red was one of the greatest sitcom dads in history. nt

[Vincardog]

3. Put it up along with the Graff of the distribution of income change during the outlaw years

[truthisfreedom]

4. Bwa-ha-ha-haaa!!! Do it! Put it up! It's perfect! America's wrecked, you drove it into the ditch

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

[global1]

5. And To Think - We Taxpayers Paid For That Banner.......nt

[DBoon]

6. right in front! right by the entrance!

let people know they will be entering a world of fantasy when they visit the Bush museum

[jakeXT]

7. I thought he wanted to change the message

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-11-2010/the-decider-returns

[frylock]

13. ... or somthing

[Stevenmarc]

9. Well there can't be too many books so that should cover up a lot of empty shelves

[truthisfreedom]

15. Well there's this book.

and this one.

[Evasporque]

10. Over the Katrina response exhibit...nt

[smuglysmiling]

11. Now that the site has been determined...

it is time to purchase some land between the freeway and the site to open the Museum of Presidential Blunders.

[rasputin1952]

12. Bwaaaahaha

Amazing...:rofl:

Put the damn thing up, along w/the flightsuit he wore that day...:D

[dogknob]

14. ...thereby creating the world's biggest dumpster! n/t

[Zephie]

16. It doesn't matter if they do or not: everyone knows that libraries are hotbeds of "librul" thinking

No one on that campus will see it anyway.