On Thu, 07 Feb 2008 18:55:26 -0500, Eisboch wrote:


What goal?

To the crew of the ship, *their* current deployment mission had been
accomplished.
You still don't get it.

Eisboch

Well, it's easy to get confused when Bush's speech, given that day,
included, "In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have
prevailed." While the *final* copy of the speech did not include
"mission accomplished", that is due to Rumsfeld, who stated, "I was in
Baghdad, and I was given a draft of that thing to look at. And I just
died, and I said my God, it's too conclusive. And I fixed it and sent it
back… they fixed the speech, but not the sign."