Happy Mission Accomplished Day!

Celebrate by purchasing one of these.

You can also celebrate by going down memory lane and reading what people in the media were saying when Bush landed with his flight suit.

Here is one of my favorites from Chris Matthews:

MATTHEWS: We're proud of our president. Americans love having a guy as president, a guy who has a little swagger, who's physical, who's not a complicated guy like [former President Bill] Clinton or even like [former Democratic presidential candidates Michael] Dukakis or [Walter] Mondale, all those guys, [George] McGovern. They want a guy who's president. Women like a guy who's president. Check it out. The women like this war. I think we like having a hero as our president. It's simple. We're not like the Brits. We don't want an indoor prime minister type, or the Danes or the Dutch or the Italians, or a [Russian Federation President Vladimir] Putin. Can you imagine Putin getting elected here? We want a guy as president.

EDIT: Here's a fun memory from that day:



HA HA! Then why did the banner say Mission Accomplished? Good question Senator!

It reminds me of that part of Catch-22 where everyone celebrated because the front line on the map moved, meaning that they would not have to go on a dangerous bombing run. Yossarian moved the line himself when no one was around, but the map had become reality to everyone, so they celebrated. The Bush administration tried to create their own reality, and failed. John McCain was a willing accomplice in creating this fantasy world.

From Faith, Certainty and the Presidency of George W. Bush, by Ron Suskind, published October 17, 2004 in the New York Times Magazine:

The aide said that guys like me were "in what we call the reality-based community," which he defined as people who "believe that solutions emerge from your judicious study of discernible reality." ... "That's not the way the world really works anymore," he continued. "We're an empire now, and when we act, we create our own reality. And while you're studying that reality—judiciously, as you will—we'll act again, creating other new realities, which you can study too, and that's how things will sort out. We're history's actors…and you, all of you, will be left to just study what we do."