Re: What exactly did they mean by "Mission Accomplished?"

Hey Isn't "The Progressive" a  American Communist Party/Liberal magazine??
So like we are supposed to believe them??  Yeah, I don't think so!!!!!

"Harry Hope" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> From The Progressive, December, 2003 issue:
> http://www.progressive.org/dec03/durst1203.html
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> Off the Map Will Durst
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>
> Good day, everyone.
>
> I'm here against my better instincts, primarily to address this minor
> misunderstanding that apparently has you all a-twitter.
>
> Now I know you people make your living by twisting facts and
> complicating everything, but the deal is, it's very simple really.
>
> Any fourth grader could understand.
>
> Let me explain it again.
>
> Please try and listen closely this time.
>
> When we said, "Mission Accomplished," we didn't actually mean "mission
> accomplished," if, in "mission," you assume we meant the act of
> subduing Iraq, and "accomplished" would refer to the event being over.
>
> If that's what you thought and that's what you wrote, then you were
> mistaken.
>
> Misled.
>
> Not by us.
>
> We would never do that.
>
> By the Navy perhaps.
>
> Or your expectations.
>
> Jumped the gun is what you did.
>
> All we did was imply a mission was over.
>
> This unnamed mission may have had a definite laying off of activity,
> or it may not have.
>
> Some things just aren't knowable.
>
> And who of us needs to know every little thing?
>
> You?
>
> Don't make me laugh.
>
> Certainly not us.
>
> The business we are in does not allow room for us to declare someone
> else's mission either accomplished or unaccomplished.
>
> You certainly wouldn't want that kind of presumption thrust on your
> mission, were it yours.
>
> And be honest, do you really want us to take on that kind of added
> responsibility right now?
>
> Haven't we enough on our plate?
>
> And besides, what is "accomplished," anyhow?
>
> Who of you is qualified to determine at what level an event can be
> stamped concluded, done, complete?
>
> Surely you see what I'm getting at.
>
> "Accomplished" is such a messy word, seeming to indicate a
> predetermined result, and we have repeatedly warned you people, you
> musn't anticipate an outcome.
>
> Just a lengthy ongoing.
>
> Folks, either you're helping or you're hindering here, and what I'm
> sensing is a whole lot of the latter.
>
> And no, I don't think I will take any follow-up questions, thank you
> very much.
>
> We're busy people here, folks, we got an election to win here, I mean
> a war to win, that is, a peace to enforce.
>
> I said good day.
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> _________________________________________________________
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> Another Will Durst gem.
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> Harry