Mission Not Accomplished
At an event at Norwalk City Hall yesterday, 5 years to the day after George Bush declared "Mission Accomplished" on board the U.S.S. Abraham Lincoln, Jim Himes spoke about the mission not accomplished in Iraq, and how our continued presence in Iraq is affecting other unaccomplished missions - the economy, health care, education, and energy - that we face here at home. Watch video highlights here (and subscribe to HimesForCongress on Youtube):
Today's Stamford Advocate has more on yesterday's event:
Himes' campaign manager, Maura Keaney, said what Shays says and does are two different things.
"His real power in Congress is where he votes," Keaney said. "The most recent timeline was proposed by the Iraq Study Group, which (Shays) claimed to support. But now he says that's not realistic and moves the goalpost back another year, and another year, and now five years have gone by."
Going back down memory lane, this was Chris Shays' opinion of Bush's Mission Accomplished speech as expressed to Larry King on CNN, five years ago last night:
REP. CHRIS SHAYS (R), CONNECTICUT: Well, this was so exciting. We were looking at 18 and 19-year-old kids. That's the average age on this ship. And on a scale of 1 to 10, our military performed at an 11. And this president had a right to rejoice. But it was just a compassionate, wonderful speech.
