MISSION ACCOMPLISHED (2003) w/ Noreen Malone

This Day in Esoteric Political History

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🗓️ 2 May 2021

⏱️ 20 minutes

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Summary

It’s May 2nd. This day in 2003 (actually, May 1st) President George W. Bush gave a speech about the Iraq War on the USS Abraham Lincoln in front of a large banner reading “Mission Accomplished.”

Jody, Niki, and Kellie are joined by Slate’s Noreen Malone to discuss the stagecraft of the speech, and how it came at a moment when many people inside and outside the administration still felt as if the Iraq War was a justified and successful effort.

Be sure to listen to the new season of SLOW BURN, hosted by Noreen, all about the run-up to the War in Iraq.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.
0:07.0	My name is Jody Avergan.
0:10.0	This day, May 2nd, 2003, actually happened on May 1st, President George W Bush, sitting in the
0:18.1	co-pilot seat of a Navy fighter jet, landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier that was parked just off the
0:25.1	coast of San Diego. Bush emerged from the fighter jet took off his helmet and walked to a
0:30.1	podium to give a speech behind him, behind that podium, was hanging a huge banner that read,
0:35.2	Mission Accomplished. Funally enough, he never actually used those words in the speech itself.
0:40.0	We can maybe get into that. This speech of course was taking place some two months
0:44.0	after the start of the Iraq war. Two months, depending on how you count the
0:49.6	war in Iraq would continue for some 15 years or more past the mission accomplished
0:54.4	speech but let's talk about that moment itself here as always are Nicole
0:58.7	Hammer of Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley hello.
1:01.8	Hey Jody.
1:03.0	Hey there.
1:04.2	And our special guests for this episode
1:05.7	is Slates Noreen Malone.
1:07.6	She's a fantastic writer and among the many things she does,
1:11.3	she is also the host of the most recent season of Slow Burn.
1:15.0	Is this the fifth season, Maureen, is that right?
1:17.3	It is season five, yes.
1:18.8	There you go, season five of Slow Burn, which is all about the run up to the war in Iraq.
1:23.3	The first two episodes are out now
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