{"id":14558,"date":"2003-09-30T16:35:00","date_gmt":"2003-09-30T16:35:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/30\/mission-not-accomplished\/"},"modified":"2003-09-30T16:35:00","modified_gmt":"2003-09-30T16:35:00","slug":"mission-not-accomplished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/30\/mission-not-accomplished\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mission Not Accomplished&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/covers\/1101031006\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" align=\"right\" border=\"0\" alt=\"W Time Magazine cover\" src=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/blogicons\/w_aircraftcarrier_timemagcover.jpg\" \/><\/a>Plenty of news outlets and blogs are commenting on how the situation in Iraq has turned into quite the quagmire, so I&rsquo;m not going to go into that in any detail.  However, I was somewhat surprised to see a recent <a href=\"http:\/\/www.time.com\/time\/covers\/1101031006\/\" target=\"_blank\"><i>Time<\/i> magazine cover<\/a>.  It shows W back in May, after his ill-advised <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/ac2\/wp-dyn\/A22502-2003May6?language=printer\" target=\"_blank\">boondoggle fly-in to the aircraft carrier <i>USS Abraham Lincoln<\/i><\/a>, with the headline: &ldquo;Mission <em>Not<\/em> Accomplished&rdquo; superimposed.  If a picture is worth a thousand words, then that cover says more than <a href=\"http:\/\/www.driko.org\/archive\/2003_08_03_archive.html#106034098993832733\" target=\"_blank\">I could ever rant<\/a>&hellip; \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" src=\"https:\/\/blogger.googleusercontent.com\/tracker\/3501955-106493974367501297?l=www.driko.org%2Findex_blogger.html\" alt=\"\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Plenty of news outlets and blogs are commenting on how the situation in Iraq has turned into quite the quagmire, so I&rsquo;m not going to go into that in any detail. However, I was somewhat surprised to see a recent Time magazine cover. It shows W back in May, after his ill-advised boondoggle fly-in to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/2003\/09\/30\/mission-not-accomplished\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8220;Mission Not Accomplished&#8221;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[118],"class_list":["post-14558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-imported"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.driko.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}