4-30-06 Mission Accomplished!

[mdmc]

Hey DU! I am proposing a Mission Accomplished Celebration for Sunday, April 30th, 2006. On 5-1-2003, flight suit boy essentially declared "mission accomplished".



I pulled this quote from DU poster Katherine Brengle OP "In case y'all forgot -- RW quotes about Iraq from 2003" http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.ph... . "Well, the hot story of the week is victory.... The Tommy Franks-Don Rumsfeld battle plan, war plan, worked brilliantly, a three-week war with mercifully few American deaths or Iraqi civilian deaths.... There is a lot of work yet to do, but all the naysayers have been humiliated so far.... The final word on this is, hooray." (Fox News Channel's Morton Kondracke, 4/12/03)

THE FINAL WORD ON THIS IS, HOORAY!

I am suggesting a "protest" with nothing but quotes from 2003 ("We will be greeted as liberators!"), nothing but Mission Accomplished posters.

When Bush stated the sixteen words in the 2003 State of the Union, I felt that we had to attack both Niger and Iraq. We could not allow Iraq to have nukes or yellowcake uranium.
This statement required military action. We went to war with the army we had (armed w/o body armor. w/o international cooperation) because Iraq was 45 minutes from nuking Israel.
We are not safer fighting them over there, because we could have fought them over-there in Afghanistan, with international cooperation. We decided to invade Iraq. This was a mistake.

Let us use their own words, their own logic, their own arguments, to show our opposition to this situation. Who would like to explore this idea?

[electropop]

1. Why did Bush have the teletubbies there?

What's the connection to killing and lying?

[mdmc]

4. I think those would make good protest outfits

:patriot:

[rzemanfl]

6. Good catch. I was trying to think of what those outfits reminded

me of. Don't spend enough time with my grandchildren, who live 1,000 miles away.

[mdmc]

10. they are so cheerful

[driver8]

7. The guys on the flight deck of a carrier wear colored jerseys that

let everyone know what job they do. Purple is fuel, Red is weapons, Green takes care of catapult and arresting gears. I think the guys in blue move the planes around and the guys in yellow are responsible for planes being where they are supposed to be. I didn't get to spend much time on the flight deck when I was stationed on a carrier.


Check this out: http://www.chinfo.navy.mil/navpalib/ships/carriers/rainbow.html

[Deja Q]

12. I thought they were the Wiggles...

They look like rejects from any given star trek series...

[muntrv]

2. Excellent idea!

Nothing more effective than using their words against them.

[SpiralHawk]

3. The next day (May 2) the Old Man of the Mountain lost face

in Franconia Notch, New Hampshire.

The famous Old Man of the Mountain apparently died of shame and embarassment after having to bear witness to George AWOL Bush's shameless parading around in codpiece and Victory Banner.

The venerable granite face sheered away from the mountain just hours after Bush falsely proclaimed "Mission Accomplished" on the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln.




Read all about it at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Man_of_the_Mountain


Oh, the shame, the shame, the shame of pResident AWOL and his WMD lies.

[mdmc]

5. I forgot about that

[SpiralHawk]

8. For me an interesting parallel is that

since childhood I had always associated the profile of the Old Man of the Mountain with the profile of Abraham Lincoln found on the back of the penny.

So when Bush shamed himself by falsely boasting MIssion Accomplished on the deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln, the stone face that had symbolized INTEGRITY for generations of Americans crumbled.

The lies, the propaganda, the disgraceful AWOL record, all of it -- was just too much for the Integrity of the Old Man of the Mountain. He comitted ritual suicide -- crumbling to dust -- rather than live on with the shame of Geoge Bush and the corrupt cronies who make up the modern-day Republicon party.

[mdmc]

11. the crumbling of that monument is very symbolic

:kick:

[SoCalDem]

9. GW and the teletubbies

[mdmc]

13. awol lol