(from insanereagan.com) How many thousands of US soldiers (and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis) have died since Bush proclaimed “Mission Accomplished”?

I can’t believe that Bush will veto the Iraq Bill tonight! He will have to suffer the media highlighting for the American public how ironic it is that he is extending the “mission” on the day exactly four years after he said the mission was over. Juan Cole does a thorough job of rebutting each of Bush’s claims in the speech he gave May 1, 2003 from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln.

Media Matters recalls, Mission Accomplished: A look back at the media’s fawning coverage of Bush’s premature declaration of victory in Iraq. (On a related note, such shitty reporting done by right-wing media pundits should give us pause (and make us pissed off) when considering that today NewsCorp, owner of Fox, has made a bid to expand its media empire to include DowJones, publishers of the Wall Street Journal.)

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