May 1 2013....
In 1960, the Soviet Union shot down an American U-2 reconnaissance plane over Sverdlovsk and captured its pilot, Francis Gary Powers....
Then Eisenhower lied about it.
In 2003, President George W. Bush, copiloting an S-3B Viking, landed on the deck of the carrier USS Abraham Lincoln off the Southern California coast; standing below a banner strung across the ship’s bridge proclaiming ‘‘Mission Accomplished,’’ Bush declared that major combat in Iraq was over, but also said ‘‘difficult work’’ remained ahead.
How quickly we all forget, well, most anyway.
In 2008, three dozen people were killed in a double suicide bombing during a wedding procession in Balad Ruz, Iraq.
Mission accomplished.
A military jury at Fort Hood, Texas, acquitted Army Sgt. Leonard Trevino of premeditated murder in the death of an unarmed Iraqi insurgent.
But we, unlike those other icky countries, hold our war criminals responsible accountable. Yeah, they are all usually acquitted, but this is AmeriKa!
A US missile strike in central Somalia killed the reputed leader of Al Qaeda in Somalia.
For the umpteenth time as Obama tosses 'em around like confetti.
President George W. Bush imposed new sanctions against property owned or controlled by the military junta in Myanmar.
Quite a change in five years, 'eh?
Deborah Jeane Palfrey, 52, the so-called ‘‘D.C. Madam’’ convicted of running a prostitution ring, hanged herself in Tarpon Springs, Fla.
Related: MSM Raises D.C. Madam From Dead
Philipp Freiherr von Boeselager, believed to be the last surviving member of the inner circle of plotters who attempted to kill Adolf Hitler, died in Altenahr, Germany, at age 90.
I swear I see that name (or the word Nazi) every single day in my jewspaper.
In 2012, in a swift and secretive trip to the Afghan war zone, President Obama signed an agreement vowing long-term ties with Afghanistan after America’s combat forces returned home. Hundreds of activists across the US joined worldwide May Day protests, with Occupy Wall Street members in several cities leading demonstrations and in some cases clashing with police.
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