White House pressed on 'mission accomplished' sign

Fresh from CNN at 8:30pm

http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/mission.accomplished/index.html

"Attention turned Tuesday to a giant "Mission Accomplished" sign that stood behind Bush aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln when he gave the speech May 1.

The president told reporters the sign was put up by the Navy, not the White House.

"I know it was attributed somehow to some ingenious advance man from my staff -- they weren't that ingenious, by the way," the president said Tuesday.

Now his statements are being parsed even further.

Navy and administration sources said that though the banner was the Navy's idea, the White House actually made it. "... must read

Dean has taken shots at him too over this:

Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean also issued a critical statement.

"Today, we heard him try to walk away from the USS Abraham Lincoln 'end of major combat operations' announcement, absurdly claiming that the White House was not responsible for the 'Mission Accomplished' banner that decorated the flight deck," Dean said.

GO DEAN!

"Assigning responsibility elsewhere, especially to the military, is not a typical move for the Bush administration and raised suspicions among critics."

Bull crap.

Everything is everyone else's fault but the WH.

Maybe this reporter, Dana Bash, needs a few emails.

she needs to be set straight

He was so good with his congenital liar character on SNL, that he seems the natural person to bring lying Dubya to life.

It was COMBAT Operations -- it's been SCRUBBED on the WHITE HOUSE site and others since then..

Check it out, we caught this back in August but even the media wants to use the term MAJOR..

it was NEVER in the wording of any titles until soldiers died like flies since then..

here's the link:

http://www.takebackthemedia.com/whitehouselies.html

A lie, is a lie, is a lie....

See http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=188592

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