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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
5/1/2003
CIA Director George Tenet provided a written statement for the 9/11 Commission on March 24, 2004. He wrote: “The Terrorist Threat Integration Center, established May 1, 2003, exemplifies a new way that the Federal Government is doing business to advance our analytic capabilities in the fight against terrorism. For the first time we have unfettered […]
5/1/2003
From the USS Abraham Lincoln at sea, President George W. Bush said: “The battle of Iraq is one victory in a war on terror that began on September the 11, 2001 — and still goes on. That terrible morning, 19 evil men — the shock troops of a hateful ideology — gave America and the civilized world […]
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As stated in “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry – Executive Summary”: “President Bush declares [Iraq] ‘Mission Accomplished’.” – Commissioned by the Prime Minister The Right Honourable Gordon Brown MP, “The Report of the Iraq Inquiry: Executive Summary,” IraqInquiry.org.uk, May 1, 2003 […]
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“On May 1 [2003], in a carefully choreographed event, the White House arranged for [President] Bush to land on a jet aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Speaking under a huge banner that declared ‘Mission Accomplished,’ Bush proclaimed that ‘major combat operations’ in Iraq were over and that the United States had ‘prevailed.’ He […]
5/1/2003
“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 […]
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 […]
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“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 […]