‘Mission accomplished’
Friday, May 2nd, 20081/5/08
May 1 marks the fifth anniversary since George Bush, the US president, declared all major military operations in Iraq to be over, in a speech on the USS Abraham Lincoln warship as a banner proclaiming “mission accomplished” hung in the background. However, five years on from the declaration, there have been more than 4,000 US military deaths and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis have been killed or fled the country while the fighting against the presence of US-led troops in the country is ongoing. Here is a selection of comments from George Bush, the US president, and other senior White House figures, on the aftermath of the war in Iraq.
