EFLtrainer

Joined: 04 May 2005
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Posted: Sat Apr 28, 2007 12:36 am Post subject: Mission Accomplished? Music and a message. |
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The New Mission Accomplished: Send in your suggestions.
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On May 1, 2003, aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln off the coast of San Diego, President George W. Bush gave his infamous "Mission Accomplished" speech stating major combat operations in Iraq had ended. Today, four years later, nationally renowned spoken word artist Steven Connell joins forces with Robert Greenwald and Brave New Foundation to ask what, exactly, was ever accomplished.
HONOR OUR FALLEN SERVICE MEMBERS
FLY THE FLAG AT HALF-STAFF
Just days before this video and website was to go online, an American soldier serving in Afghanistan wrote an op-ed piece which has since stirred up a national debate. The soldier questioned why we do not lower the flag to half-staff when a soldier dies at war. |
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