Antiwar Group To Fly Planes Over GOP Debate With Banners Mocking "Mission Accomplished" Moment

[Oilwellian]

This is kind of fun. The antiwar group Americans Against Escalation in Iraq is planning to fly two planes in the skies above tonight's GOP debate in Los Angeles, complete with banners mocking President Bush's "mission accomplished" moment. From the group's release:

Two planes will circle the airspace over tonight’s GOP Presidential debate in Los Angeles with banners that read, “Republicans, Mission Accomplished?” and “McCain, Mission Accomplished?” The planes will take off from Simmi Airfield outside L.A. at 2:30pm and will circle the GOP Presidential Debate until its conclusion.

The best part is that the group needed to keep mum about the news until now out of fear that the skies above the debate would somehow get shut down if word of its plans leaked out.

http://electioncentral.tpmcafe.com/blog/electioncentral/2007/may/03/moveon_to_fly_planes_over_gop_debate_with_banners_mocking_mission_accomplished_moment

[Raine]

1. Cheers to them

I would love to see that! :thumbsup:

[LisaM]

2. Fun! One of my favorite moments like that was back when Ohio State

sold off the naming rights to its basketball arena (they call it Value City Arena). When the football team came to Michigan, someone had hired a plane to fly around with a sign, "Welcome, Value City University!"

[DeepBlueC]

3. Here's hoping for an enterprising journalist

who will get this on camera. I suppose the org will have video on youtube soon enough.

[Beaverhausen]

4. Oh shoot- my camera is at Disneyland with my boyfriend

or I'd take pics if I saw them.

this is cool!