On Anniversary of ‘Mission Accomplished’ Political Showdown on Iraq Continues
On the anniversary of one of the president’s most infamous episodes of political theater, Congress and the White House prepared to upstage one another today in a showdown over the Iraq funding bill, which mandates U.S. troop withdrawal as an attempt to bring an end to U.S. involvement in the war.
On the four-year anniversary of President Bush’s premature “Mission Accomplished” photo op aboard the USS Abraham Lincoln, Democrats prepared to send the president an unwelcome anniversary present — a $124 billion troop funding bill that will require the withdrawal of U.S. troops as soon as July 1.
The president is vetoed it immediately, in what is only his second presidential veto.
At a Tuesday afternoon “bill signing ceremony,” Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., staged a bit of political theater of their own.
Source: abcnews.go.com
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