Mission Accomplished? Yes, actually.
It's been 50 months since the infamous photo-op, codpiece and macho rhetoric from the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, and history has seen that moment turn from a shining image of Neocon triumph into a running joke and haunting symbol of Bushie bravado and incompetence. Countless cartoons and commentaries have skewered the stunt, while modern-day-Murrow, Keith Olberman, signs off each Countdown broadcast with a count-up of days since the ill-fated proclamation.
Are these endless liberal lampoons fair? Do they rally support or cast the party as a vulture more interested in picking at a corpse than setting things right?
The more accurate and embraceable way to decry the handling of Iraq is to clearly lay full blame where it belongs: at the foot of the architects of a post-Saddam Iraq. Get your bumper stickers. Circulate the talking points. Get all candidates on message. Repeat after me:
"WE WON THE WAR -- WE HAVE LOST THE PEACE."
