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 The White House acknowledged this week that it has "paid a price" for the "Mission Accomplished" backdrop to President Bush's May 1, 2003 Iraq speech, saying it left the wrong impression. "President Bush is well aware that the banner should have been much more specific, and said, 'Mission Accomplished For These Sailors Who Are On This Ship On Their Mission,'" said spokeswoman Dana Perino. Oh brother. Are they kidding? Are we now supposed to believe that the "Mission Accomplished" blunder was just a “signage problem?” The impression created five years ago by the president’s grandstanding landing on the carrier deck and his speech to the troops was that the U.S. mission to depose Iraq’s dictator Saddam Hussein had been accomplished. Has the mission to create a self-sustaining democratic government in Iraq -- that can be protected by its own troops -- been accomplished? Add your caption to this cartoon....
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