On May 1, 2003 Bush participated in a shameless, totally staged photo op aboard the aircraft carrier, Abraham Lincoln and told the nation that "combat operations in Iraq were over." Just another lie! Instead, we are in a real quagmire in Iraq with no real or foreseeable exit strategy, with more soldiers killed since this photo op than were killed prior to it. But there's still more. At a press conference on Tuesday, October 28, 2003, in response to a reporter's question about the original banner that said: Mission Accomplished, Bush claimed that the Navy [members of the Abraham Lincoln] put it up, stating: "I know it was attributed some how to some ingenious advance man from my staff -- they weren't that ingenious, by the way." Now the White House is scrambling to dig themselves out of yet another Bush lie. Yes, the Navy did hang the banner but the idea and production of the "Mission Accomplished" banner as a backdrop for Bush's speech was hatched by the White House.

We think our banner best sums up the situation in Iraq including the lies told by the Bush Administration that got us into this mess.