The Daily Populous Thursday May 2nd, 2024 night edition
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acxswitch on May 1st, 2024 at 18:39 UTC »

Any time you see a custom designed banner created by the government, you're being sold some bull shit.

EnamelKant on May 1st, 2024 at 19:15 UTC »

And nothing bad ever happened in the Middle East again.

non-number-name on May 1st, 2024 at 19:51 UTC »

> > White House spokesman Scott McClellan told CNN that in preparing for the speech, Navy officials on the carrier told Bush aides they wanted a "Mission Accomplished" banner, and the White House agreed to create it.

> > "We took care of the production of it," McClellan said. "We have people to do those things. But the Navy actually put it up."

> > The banner has been used by critics of the Bush administration as evidence of bravado and an unclear sense of how dangerous the postwar conflict in Iraq would be.

> > Assigning responsibility elsewhere, especially to the military, is not a typical move for the Bush administration and raised suspicions among critics.

> > Cmdr. Conrad Chun, a Navy spokesman, defended the president's assertion.

> > "The banner was a Navy idea, the ship's idea," Chun said.

> > "The banner signified the successful completion of the ship's deployment," he said, noting the Abraham Lincoln was deployed 290 days, longer than any other nuclear-powered aircraft carrier in history.

-Dana Bash CNN Washington Bureau 29OCT2003

Thanks to u/roberttylerlee for providing the link.