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Mission Accomplished
Speaker Nancy Pelosi insists the Democrats didn’t intentionally game the system to force President Bush to veto the war-funding bill on the fourth anniversary of his infamous “Mission Accomplished” speech aboard an aircraft carrier.
No other choice, Pelosi said Tuesday, noting Monday’s funeral for Rep. Juanita Millender-McDonald of California.
Regardless of the reason - and the White House believes Democrats did intentionally slow the bill down to get it to his desk on “Mission Accomplished” anniversary day - Pelosi wasted little time in making political hay over the timing.
“The president isn’t listening to the American people’s call to end this disastrous war,” she said in a Tuesday evening e-mail to Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee donors and supporters. “What further proof do they need than the timing of his veto? The president vetoed our bill that would end this war and bring our troops home the week of the fourth anniversary of his infamous ‘Mission Accomplished’ speech that declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq. Four years after that misguided speech, the president keeps making the same mistakes in Iraq.”
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