Smasharoo wrote:
The banner's message was written by the ship's crew, not the President's staff.
http://www.cnn.com/2003/ALLPOLITICS/10/28/mission.accomplished/
Navy and administration sources said that though the banner was the Navy's idea, the White House actually made it.
*cough*
Which means that the "message" was written by the ship's crew, not the President's staff.
You know. The actual words "mission accomplished" were chosen by the ship's crew. They asked the White House to actually make and supply the banner, but the word choice was theirs. Kinda like how you might write something and then go to Kinko's to get copies made. You don't give Kinko's credit (or blame) for what was actually written.
fromtheverysamearticleyoulinked wrote:
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.
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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.
How many different times do I have to show you (and other's apparently) this same information? How many times do you read "The navy choose the words and put up the banner, the white house just made it for them at their request" before you realize that the words (the "message") of the banner had *nothing* to do with the Iraq conflict in general but was a statement about the ship.
Sheesh!
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What's it like to be wrong all the time? Must be exhausting.
Why don't you tell us then?