'Mission Accomplished' banner could go up in Bush library

Source: USA Today

As former president George W. Bush broke ground Tuesday in Dallas for his presidential library, officials weighed whether or not to display one item that few know is being held in storage there: the "Mission Accomplished" banner.

The banner was the backdrop aboard the USS Lincoln during Bush's televised speech May 1, 2003, to proclaim the end of major combat in Iraq. It caused controversy in the months that followed when violence in Iraq spiraled.

The banner now sits in storage and will become part of the library's collection. A decision on how or whether to display the red-white-and-blue banner hasn't been made, said Alan Lowe, director of the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum.

Lowe, who is employed by the National Archives, a federal agency, said the military shipped several items, including the banner, to the archives in 2005. About six months ago, the archives transferred the banner to the temporary site for the library in Lewisville, Texas. The permanent library, the George W. Bush Presidential Center, will be on the Southern Methodist University campus in Dallas. It is to open in 2013.

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which would make it totally appropriate, actually.

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED!

let people know they will be entering a world of fantasy when they visit the Bush museum

and this one.

it is time to purchase some land between the freeway and the site to open the Museum of Presidential Blunders.

Amazing...:rofl:

Put the damn thing up, along w/the flightsuit he wore that day...:D

No one on that campus will see it anyway.