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The problem with declaring mission accomplished

WE'RE all guilty of speaking to soon and regretting it later but <i>Slugcatcher</i> reckons the two best examples of that failing are one from a former US President George W Bush and one from a spokesman for the government of Saudi Arabia.

Tim Treadgold

Bush's classic faux pas (false step) was 12 years ago when he declared the end of the war in Iraq while standing on the deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln. "Mission accomplished," he told...

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