Joe Lockhart: Trump repeating Bush's 'Mission Accomplished' boondoggle

On May 1, 2003, aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, President George W. Bush stood before a banner declaring "Mission Accomplished." But he had declared victory prematurely and subsequently lost the political battle over the war in Iraq. From that day on, every time Americans troops suffered a setback, critics would remark something along the lines of, 'Is this really what victory really looks like?'

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