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Originally Posted by cthulu23
Onetime2,
And if Iraq hadn't proven to be such a disaster after the fact then the Bush team would be plastering those photos all over the media. What's good for the goose...
These images do have a deeper relevance in that they showcase the overconfidence of our commander-in-chief. Isn't overconfidence a dangerous trait in a self-proclaimed war president? This might help explain the long life of this story above and beyond the image assassination aspects.
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I doubt they would have been plastering them everywhere because he looked liked a dork in the flightsuit (just like Dukakis in the helmet and Kerry at NASA). The Mission Accomplished banner in the background you are right about, they would be using that one if it Iraq was a success at this point.
As for the relevance, I don't see any at all. At the time Bush was on the carrier which position was Kerry occupying on Iraq? If you are fine with him altering his perspectives as time goes on then the same should be true of Bush.
Overconfidence or excessive enthusiasm doesn't bother me so long as a leader learns from it. I don't recall Bush saying anything similar recently. You want to criticize Bush for going into Iraq based on the evidence he had, fine. You want to say his occupation plans were bad, fine. These things come down to real substantive differences. Arguing about what he meant by individual words in a speech from a year ago isn't exactly substantive IMO.