Mission Accomplished speech
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title:
Mission Accomplished speech
text:
On May 1, 2003, United States President George W. Bush gave a televised speech on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. Bush, who had launched the U.S.-led invasion of Iraq six weeks earlier, mounted a podium before a White House-produced banner that read "Mission Accomplished". Reading from a prepared text, he said, "Major combat operations in Iraq have ended. In the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed" because "the regime [the Iraqi dictatorship of Saddam Hussei
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description:
2003 speech by U.S. President George W. Bush
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_Accomplished_speech
date created:
2005-08-16T21:55:10Z
date modified:
2024-08-29T19:37:27Z
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