Yep, it's The Sailors Fault!

From Kos:

"Q Mr. President, if I may take you back to May 1st when you stood on the USS Lincoln under a huge banner that said, 'Mission Accomplished.' At that time you declared major combat operations were over, but since that time there have been over 1,000 wounded, many of them amputees who are recovering at Walter Reed, 217 killed in action since that date. Will you acknowledge now that you were premature in making those remarks?
THE PRESIDENT: Nora, I think you ought to look at my speech. I said, Iraq is a dangerous place and we've still got hard work to do, there's still more to be done. And we had just come off a very successful military operation. I was there to thank the troops.
The 'Mission Accomplished' sign, of course, was put up by the members of the USS Abraham Lincoln, saying that their mission was accomplished. I know it was attributed some how to some ingenious advance man from my staff -- they weren't that ingenious, by the way.
The USS Lincoln appearance was stage-managed to the 't'. Everything from the backdrop to the placement of the troops, to the placement of the aircraft carrier itself (San Diego had to be out of sight) was managed by Bush's political operation.
Now, called on the fact, he has the temerity to lay the blame on our sailors??? He's the commander-in-chief, for chrissakes! If the banner didn't reflect his thinking, he could've simply asked that it be removed.
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Brought It On

"BAGHDAD, Iraq - Car bombers struck the international Red Cross headquarters and three police stations across Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 35 people and injuring more than 200 in a spree of destruction that terrorized the Iraqi capital on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

The string of bombings, all within less than an hour, was the bloodiest attack yet in the city of 5 million by insurgents targeting the American-led occupation and those perceived as working with it. It also appeared like a dramatic escalation in tactics — in past weeks, bombers have carried out heavy suicide bombings, but in single strikes."

"Bring it on" sounded so macho when he said it back then...poor victims that actually have to deal with the fallout of his bravado