2. Mission Accomplished?
We guess that President George W. Bush failed to learn from his father’s bag of crack prop when he gave a televised address on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln on May 1, 2003. And Bush Jnr would use more than one prop to make his point. Not only did he arrive in a Lockheed S-3 Viking, dubbed Navy One, wearing a flight suit, his team thought it would be a great idea to hang a banner behind him reading ‘mission accomplished.’
There was one slight issue, the mission was very far from being accomplished as not only were major military operations still taking place in Iraq, the US military’s presence would continue long after the now infamous banner was taken down. It wouldn’t be until 2008 that President Bush would agree to a withdrawal of all US combat troops from Iraq, and it took until December 2011 under Barack Obama, would the withdrawal be completed.
