“On May 1 [2003], the former Texas Air National Guard jet pilot [President Bush] donned a flight suit and landed on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln…In an address to the nation from the flight deck, he proclaimed, ‘Major combat operations in Iraq have ended…We have difficult work to do in Iraq.’…As Bush spoke a […]
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5/1/2003
In a speech he gave on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, President Bush said: ” ‘The liberation of Iraq is a crucial advance in the campaign against terror. We have removed an ally of al-Qaeda, and cut off a source of terrorist funding. And this much is […]
5/1/2003
“On May 1 [2003], [President] Bush…declared that ‘major combat operations in Iraq have ended.’ “ He continued: ” ‘Our coalition will stay until our work is done. Then we will leave and we will leave behind a free Iraq.’ ” – Bob Woodward, State of Denial, Page 187 […]
5/1/2003
On May 1, 2003, President Bush declared major combat operations in Iraq over. “American casualties had been relatively light, with 139 dead and 542 wounded.” – Karen DeYoung, Soldier: The Life of Colin Powell, Page 461 […]
5/1/2003
After announcing that ‘major combat operations in Iraq have ended‘ from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003, President Bush “explained that ‘the battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the eleventh, 2001, and still goes on’ and that the battle had ‘removed […]
5/1/2003
“On May 1, 2003, aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, President Bush announced that ‘major combat operations’ in Iraq had ended. The defeat of Saddam Hussein, he told the American people, was ‘a crucial advance in the campaign against terror.’ For the umpteenth time Bush once again bracketed Saddam and 9/11: ‘The battle of Iraq is […]
5/1/2003
Former President George W. Bush recalled his May 1, 2003, speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln, announcing the end of major combat operations in Iraq: “I hadn’t noticed the large banner my staff had placed on the bridge of the ship, positioned for TV. It read ‘Mission Accomplished.’ It was intended as a tribute to the […]
5/1/2003
On May 1, 2003, “Centcom [Central Command] announced that major combat operations were officially over [in Iraq], and President Bush dressed up in a flight suit to land on the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln. The White House had arranged for the ship to sport a banner with the words ‘Mission Accomplished’ over the flight deck. […]
5/1/2003
On May 1, 2003, Secretary of Defense Donald “Rumsfeld was in Kabul declaring victory in Afghanistan. ‘If one looks at Afghanistan and even Iraq today, it’s very clear that we are and have been in a stabilization operation mode for some time,’ said Rumsfeld. ‘We clearly have moved from major combat activity to a period […]
5/1/2003
On May 1, 2003, “US Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld says at a press conference with President [Hamid] Karzai in Afghanistan that the situation has moved from one of major combat to stability and stabilization.” – Ahmed Rashid, Taliban, Page 267 […]