Mission Accomplished

With the devastation yesterday in Oklahoma following an enormous tornado, with a winds in excess of 200MPh, leaving some 24 dead and miles destroyed buildings, the US News and Media is rightly focussed on that. Almost 10-years to the day when then President George Bush declared “Mission accomplished” after landing on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln to declare a end to major combat operations in Iraq. Arguably Iraq has seen one of it’s worst weeks of car bombings and sectarian deaths. Yesterday alone saw 9 car bombs go off in Baghdad striking at bus stops, marketplaces and in the streets in busy morning hours … Continue reading Mission Accomplished