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Happy Mission Accomplished Day!

Four years ago today, President George W. Bush donned a codpiece-augmented flightsuit, landed on the deck of the aircraft carrier Lincoln, and declared victory in Iraq standing in front of a giant banner that declared "Mission Accomplished!"

It is doomed to go down in history as the most effed up piece of political wishful thinking of all time. Since that date, 3,000+ American troops have died, an Iraqi civil war has ignited, and countless Iraqis have died (literally, countless, as we have no accurate numbers as to how many - perhaps as high as 650,000).

We should weep for America.

Instead, let's celebrate other Missions (Un)Accomplished. I'll go first:

I vowed I'd lose 40 lbs. by June 16th. While I've lost 20 so far, I'm still eating too much pizza and ice cream for anyone on a diet.

What about you?!

categories: Bush | Iraq | politics | War
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stormi said on May 1, 2007:

I vowed no coffee for a whole year for my new years resolution. Considering I'm a barista I think I did pretty well, but I caved in March. Oh well.

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cnine said on May 1, 2007:

similarly, i vowed to quit drinking for 40 days...i lasted about 4 hours.

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Imaginary-Saundrah said on May 2, 2007:

Bush celebrated this day, by completing another one of his planned missions, vetoing the war-funding bill that would start bring the troops home next year... MEH!

Congrats on the weight loss, Lawrence!

I want to lose at least 10 by my birthday in July. Want to do some after work Green Lake walks?? (then we can go to Tacos Guaymas afterwards and get a margariiiiita!...ummm)
Dana? Anyone else? I need to get my fanny movin'!!

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