MISSION ACCOMPLISHED...5 years later

It is now five years since Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" in Iraq. Five years since Bush gloated that we had won...and yet almost every day brings more casualties. We are STILL mired in Iraq, still have no exit strategy. And Osama bin Laden, who has never set foot in Iraq, remains free and his al-Qaeda terrorist organization is stronger than ever.

Bush has failed.

And John McCain has vowed to continue Bush's Iraq Quagmire for as long as 100 years. Yes...he said he would be fine with continuing this failure for 100 years. Let's look at McCain's views of Bush's failed Iraq Quagmire: (thanks to MoveOn.org

* John McCain recently said, "No one has supported President Bush on Iraq more than I have."1 He was Bush's strongest ally in the march to war in Iraq. McCain consistently repeated the same misjudgments made by Vice President Cheney, Defense Secretary Rumsfeld, and President Bush. More than 4,000 American troops have lost their lives because of these misjudgments.2
* McCain says we could be in Iraq for 100 years, and has consistently opposed any plan to withdraw troops from Iraq.3 He'd rather dump billions more in Iraq than invest it in our economy back home.
* McCain accuses folks who want to bring our troops home of "surrender."4

1. "McCain: 'No one has supported President Bush on Iraq more than I have,'" ThinkProgress, April 2, 2008
http://www.moveon.org/r?r=3621&id=12542-5690110-f9Hedu&t=6

2. "Senator McCain's Real Record on the War in Iraq," VoteVets.org, February 8, 2008
http://www.votevets.org/mccain.html

3."McCain's Century Of War," Progressive Media USA, April 29, 2008
http://www.mccainsource.com/security?id=0004
"Senator McCain's Real Record on the War in Iraq," VoteVets.org, February 8, 2008
http://www.votevets.org/mccain.html

4. "McCain Says He Could Lose Over War Issue," Associated Press, February 25, 2008
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080225/D8V1KDH84.html

"Senator McCain's Real Record on the War in Iraq," VoteVets.org, February 8, 2008
http://www.votevets.org/mccain.html

Here is MoveOn.org's ad in honor of the fifth anniversary of Bush's "Mission Accomplished" speech:



And let me remind you of the video put out one year ago, on the fourth anniversary, by Americans United for Change: