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Quote by: Sonart But I can understand your frustration, rdnor. After all, it wasn't but a couple of years ago that you folks were all swaggering around, thumping your chests and gloating over Dear Leader's glorious 'Mission Accomplished' and election victory. And now to have to sit there and read our smirking "WE TOLD YOU SO!"s and realize we were right all along, that Bush's war has been a disastrous failure, has got to be devastating. |
I'm sure that many ordinary people, not just folks like rdnor, were "thumping their chests and gloating" when the mission of removing Saddam from power was accomplished. When Bush gave that speech he said:
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Admiral Kelly, Captain Card, officers and sailors of the USS Abraham Lincoln, my fellow Americans, major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.
And now our coalition is engaged in securing and reconstructing that country.
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Hmm... I dunno about you, but that seems pretty clear to me. The mission was accomplished (Saddam was taken out of power and his military disintigrated), and now efforts to build up Iraq were to begin.