Mission Accomplished!

Happy Mission Accomplished Day, everyone!! Yes, it's been five years. And 4,000 dead Americans - but who's counting? Wasn't Bush HAWT in that manly flight suit?

Editor & Publisher roundup of the NYT coverage of this stunt and its aftermath. One interesting note:

“The Bush administration is planning to withdraw most United States combat forces from Iraq over the next several months and wants to shrink the American military presence to less than two divisions by the fall, senior allied officials said today.”

Guess that statement is 'no longer operative'... For more, see Greg Mitchell's So Wrong for So Long.

But the worst of course are the jock-sniffing reactions of our major media figures, which Media Matters provides for your throwing-up-in-the-mouth-a-little pleasure. There's too much to quote here, but it just makes you sick over and over.