It's MISSION ACCOMPLISHED day!!!!

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TWO YEARS AGO TODAY!

Let freedom reign!!!!!!

oops...

http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/01/africa/web.0501iraq.php

Insurgents unleash third day of deadly attacks in defiance of Iraq's new government
The Associated Press

SUNDAY, MAY 1, 2005
BAGHDAD Insurgents began a third straight day of attacks in Iraq on Sunday, including ambushes, car bombs and a drive-by shooting, killing nine Iraqis and wounding 21, police said.

That raised the death toll from insurgent attacks that began in Iraq on Friday to at least 74 in violence timed to deflate hopes in Washington and Baghdad that the installation of the nation’s first democratically elected government would curb spiking violence.

On Saturday, at least 17 Iraqis and one U.S. soldier were killed in the bloodletting across the country.

The strikes have been increasingly well coordinated, and that was the case in Sunday’s attack on a small road near Diala Bridge in eastern Baghdad, said police Lt. Col. Sabah Hamid al-Firtosi.

Please keep kicked so all DUers can celebrate Mission Accomplished Day!

[Bush_Eats_Beef]

1. Ah, YES. The day Chris "Tweety" Matthews found TRUE LOVE.

http://www.msnbc.com/modules/chrismatthews/050303.asp?0cb=-s1W109515

MATTHEWS: Let's go to this sub--what happened to this week, which was to me was astounding as a student of politics, like all of us. Lights, camera, action. This week the president landed the best photo op in a very long time. Other great visuals: Ronald Reagan at the D-Day cemetery in Normandy, Bill Clinton on horseback in Wyoming. Nothing compared to this, I've got to say.

Katty, for visual, the president of the United States arriving in an F-18, looking like he flew it in himself. The GIs, the women on--onboard that ship loved this guy.

Ms. KAY: He looked great. Look, I'm not a Bush man. I mean, he doesn't do it for me personally, especially not when he's in a suit, but he arrived there...

MATTHEWS: No one would call you a Bush man, by the way.

Ms. KAY: ...he arrived there in his flight suit, in a jumpsuit. He should wear that all the time. Why doesn't he do all his campaign speeches in that jumpsuit? He just looks so great.

MATTHEWS: I want him to wa--I want to see him debate somebody like John Kerry or Lieberman or somebody wearing that jumpsuit.

Mr. DOBBS: Well, it was just--I can't think of any, any stunt by the White House--and I'll call it a stunt--that has come close. I mean, this is not only a home run; the ball is still flying out beyond the park.

MATTHEWS: Well, you know what, it was like throwing that strike in Yankee Stadium a while back after 9/11. It's not a stunt if it works and it's real. And I felt the faces of those guys--I thought most of our guys were looking up like they were looking at Bob Hope and John Wayne combined on that ship.

Mr. GIGOT: The reason it works is because of--the reason it works is because Bush looks authentic and he felt that he--you could feel the connection with the troops. He looked like he was sincere. People trust him. That's what he has going for him.

MATTHEWS: Fareed, you're watching that from--say you were over in the Middle East watching the president of the United States on this humongous aircraft carrier. It looks like it could take down Syria just one boat, right, and the president of the United States is pointing a finger and saying, `You people with the weapons of mass destruction, you people backing terrorism, look out. We're coming.' Do you think that picture mattered over there?

Mr. ZAKARIA: Oh yeah. Look, this is a part of the war where we have not--we've allowed a lot of states to do some very nasty stuff, traffic with nasty people and nasty material, and I think it's time to tell them, you know what, `You're going to be help accountable for this.'

MATTHEWS: Well, it was a powerful statement and picture as well.

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2. F-18? Sheesh, they can't even get the details right. It was an

aerial tanker S-3 or somesuch.

[PsN2Wind]

4. COD

Carrier Onboard Delivery.

[tabasco]

3. Did 59million people really vote for this strutting little pantywaist?

I remember that day and knew their stunt would backfire on them.

Disgraceful and demeaning propaganda.

But two years later I still see GHWB living in the White House.

What a national nightmare.

[CanuckAmok]

5. Funny, I remember it differently:

[RedSock]

6. from enjoythedraft.org

[Ian David]

7. Mission accomplished? Sure! See photo