The Chickenhawk landed -4 years ago today

[underpants]

I can’t find the old LBN thread on this. It was funny and it was funny to read that we all knew this was far from over. The press had an absolute field day that day. The Today Show featured Ann Currey actually leading a “USA!USA!” cheer with a bunch of sailors.

No explanation of how all the press got out there with all their equipment was ever offered but Ari told us that Bush had to fly out because of how far it was from port. They turned the ship around so that we couldn’t see the glow from the lights of San Diego only 54 miles away and to take advantage of what filmmakers call the "golden hour". Frank Rich has precisely entitled the Bush administration as the "empty spectacle"-this stunt was the height of their nonsense.

[acmavm]

1. This stunt put this clown's shallow petty pathetic need for

ATTENTION on display in front of the whole world. He humiliated us all. He made himself feel like a big man on the backs of people that he murdered. And it was engineered by some of the vilest creatures in history.

[SpiralHawk]

2. ..And then the VERY next day, a national monument fell to dust...

Immediately after Commander AWOL minced around the deck of the aircraft carrier, wearing crotch padding and proclaiming his Bald Face Lie of 'Mission Accomplished,' the great symbol of the Granite State (New Hampshire), a craggy but noble rock face that had held its chin aloft proudly for millenia, lost face.

The noble Old Man of the Mountain committed ritual suicide, and collapsed into a pile of dust and rubble -- obviously dying of embarasment at the Connecticut preppy Deserter-in-Chief and his deliberate lies about the Oil Profits Crusade he started in Iraq, and all the needless death and suffering it caused.

R.I.P. Old Man of the Mountain. America misses you and your integrity. But we also understand why you had to do it. Who -- with a shred of honor or integrity -- can abide the Deserter-in-Chief and his occult cabal of chickenhawk republicon liars and thieves.

THE OLD MAN BEFORE BUSH STRAPPED ON THE CODPIECE AND BEGAN PRANCING AND LYING:


NOW: An image of the formerly noble Old Man the day after Commander AWOL shamed himself with "Mission Accomplished"

He used to look like the profile of Abraham Lincoln on the penny -- strong, honest, with tons of integrity.

But after Commander AWOL's deliberate lies, the Old Man now looks like Tom Delay, or Newt Gingrich, or some other modern-day republicon "ideal of integrity" (totally corrupted).

[Xipe Totec]

3. Four Years of Missing Accomplishments nt

[Captain Hilts]

4. The carrier was closer than 54 miles from San Diego. nt

[underpants]

7. 30

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished

On the day of the speech, the Lincoln was only 30 miles from shore but the administration still decided to go ahead with the jet landing. White House spokesman Ari Fleischer admitted that the president "could have helicoptered, but the plan was already in place. Plus, he wanted to see a landing the way aviators see a landing."<2> :eyes:

[Captain Hilts]

14. Insert Navy vs. Air Force joke here.....nt

[hlthe2b]

5. I never understood why the military let the crew be dressed like...

Teletubbies?
:eyes:

[underpants]

15. Hey come on that's not fair

[hlthe2b]

20. My eyes... my eyes!

Uggghhhhh....

[rocktivity]

6. I wish there was a way to dig up that thread where we exposed

the Mission Accomplished banner as the fraud it was. But the archives don't go all the way back to May 2003.

:headbang:
rocknation

[underpants]

8. HA! Look what wikipedia has on it

Now THIS is some spin!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished

The banner stating "Mission Accomplished" was the main source of controversy and criticism. Navy Commander and Pentagon spokesman Conrad Chun stated that the banner referred specifically to the aircraft carrier's 10-month deployment (which was the longest deployment of a carrier since the Vietnam War) and not the war itself, saying "It truly did signify a mission accomplished for the crew."

The White House claimed that the banner was requested by the crew of the ship. Afterwards, the administration and naval sources stated that the banner was the Navy's idea, White House staff members made the banner, and it was hung by the U.S. Navy personnel. White House spokesman Scott McClellan told CNN "We took care of the production of it. We have people to do those things. But the Navy actually put it up."<3> According to John Dickerson of TIME magazine, the White House later conceded that they actually hung the banner but still insists it had been done at the request of the crewmembers.<4>

[SpiralHawk]

13. But...anyone with integrity knew BushCo republcions were Catapulting Propaganda

at the citizens of the USA, to cover up their WMD lies, their gross failures, and their massive War Profiteering....

The Old Man of the Mountain -- a symbol of Integrity for Millennia -- could not stand Commander AWOLs lies anymore -- and committed RITUAL SUICIDE.

WHO CAN BLAME HIM, what with the SHAME republicons brought on America?

[kskiska]

19. I don't remember it ever being established

just who PAID for the banner.

[Hugin]

9. So, how much did this little Rovian stunt cost the taxpayers?

$500,000,000,000 and counting... It'll likely be a cool Trillion by the
time all is said and done.

The human cost is incalcuable... of course.

[underpants]

11. $7 an hour

Ari Fleischer was asked about the cost difference between a helicopter and a dramatic Viking landing at sea. Seven dollars an hour more, he said, but since the Viking was faster "you can do the math."

What about the cost of the landing itself?

"I don't think that having people on deck has any different cost. They're already on deck," he said.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0NTQ/is_2003_May_12/ai_101629225

[texpatriot2004]

10. K & R nm

[spanone]

12. what a little man. what a lying president. what a criminal.

[Virginia Dare]

16. This was Bush's tour de force,,,

in a complete sham of a Presidency. What a sad and pathetic creature he is, lost in his own fantasy world.

[SpiralHawk]

17. Truthful image

link from the Hiassanrocks thread. Nice work. The truth hurts (republicons)

[Marie26]

18. You know, at the time, I thought he was in Iraq.

These people should become film directors - they can create fiction better than anyone.

[Arugula Latte]

21. I remember the disconnect I felt ...

Here we were on DU, just ripping into this stunt and the absolute ridiculousness of the stupid idiot playing dress up, and how the whole thing was based on lies and propaganda, and yet, of course, in the mainstream corporate media, everyone from Ann Curry to Chris Matthews was having orgasms over the sight of Bush with his crotch strapped in (because he was too stupid to figure out you're supposed to unhook before walking -- real airmen know that, fake ones do not).

[rocktivity]

23. Chris Matthews' "orgasm"--yes, I remember it well

"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 Mondale, all 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."

x(
rocknation

[tabasco]

25. Someone else said this was a low day in our national history.

That is not an understatement.

The first time a President put on a military uniform while in office.

I daresay it will be a long, long time before another President emulates Bush's disgraceful stunt.

[alfredo]

22. Mission accomplished as seen by Joel Pett

[jackstraw45]

24. A SHAMEFUL moment in American History that will be mocked for generations to come...nt

nt