"MIssion Accomplished" by G. W. Bush - What a guy!

Go to Media Matters...read Eric Alterman on Altercation from which cometh the following.

You'll recall, either with a bit of a gloat or with great embarrassment, how our pretend sky-jock, pretend president, walked bowleggedly across the deck of the Navy supercarrier, the USS Abraham Lincoln, back in 2003. What you may not recall, or maybe were never told by the Bush media, the ship had been ordered 150 miles offshore so as to make the president's landing more dramatic -- no houses, cars or skyscrapers messing up the background -- and Bush didn't land the plane, a Navy pilot landed the plane!

But there came our presidential "hero," strutting in his pilot gear under a huge "Mission Accomplished" banner grinning that shit-eating grin of his as if he'd won WWIII all by hisself. And he told the nation the Army was in Baghdad and wow, hadn't they done a magnificent job winding up this war so fast?

It was impressive.

Chris Matthews, the TV blowhard, gushed "That's the president looking very much like a jet, you know, a high-flying jet star. A guy who is a jet pilot. Has been in the past when he was younger, obviously....He won the war. He was an effective commander. Everybody recognizes that, I believe, except a few critics....Here's a president who's really nonverbal. He's like Eisenhower. He looks great in a military uniform. He looks great in that cowboy costume he wears when he goes West."

And Matthews again: "We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like Clinton or even like Dukakis or those guys, McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president."

Seriously - someone needs to gag this airhead!

Ann Coulter to Matthews: "It's stunning. It's amazing. I think it's huge. I mean, he's landing on a boat at 150 miles per hour. It's tremendous. It's hard to imagine any Democrat being able to do that. And it doesn't matter if Democrats try to ridicule it. It's stunning, and it speaks for itself."

Ann Coulter has the brains of a mushroom, and she's mean as a snake, and this is exactly what a slithering mushroom would say!

There's more of this crap from other so-called political pundits: Brian Williams, Morton Kondrake, David Broder, Joe Klein, Laura Ingraham... But beware, read it only if you have a strong stomach!


The whole scenario on the USS Abraham Lincoln was staged by the White House. Initially, Bush insisted that the Navy put up the banner and denied the White House had anything to do with it. In fact, Commander Conrad Chun, a Navy spokesman, agreed with bush. "The banner was a Navy idea, the ship's idea," said Chun.

I suppose Chun thought he should back up his commander-in-chief, even if his leader is a lying, deceitful moron who shirked his own, real military responsibilities by hiding out in some political candidate's office.

The White House did, eventually, admit the banner was all their idea.

Now the Bushites are saying that the banner did not refer to Iraq, but, as Chun put it, "the successful completion of the ship's deployment."

Bush jumped all over that! "Oh, my gosh!" exclaimed the prez. "Did you think that lil' ol' banner referred to Iraq? Why would you ever get such a foolish idea? No, no, the banner was in honor of the carrier's deployment."

That's what he said, in so many words!

Lies, lies and more lies. Unfortunately, there are many more to come before November. Stay tuned!


Then, as Alterman notes, satirically: "The surge is a success! The death toll in Iraq in April reached its highest level since late last year. The four U.S. soldiers who were killed yesterday increased the total military deaths in April to 50, a seven-month high. In addition, the Iraqi government reported that 959 civilians died last month, the highest since August."

I suppose we also ought to mention another shelling of the Green Zone the other day...