Hello and welcome to this day in esoteric political history from Radiotopia.

My name is Jody Avergan.

This day, May 2nd, 2003, actually happened on May 1st, President George W Bush, sitting in the

co-pilot seat of a Navy fighter jet, landed on the USS Abraham Lincoln, an aircraft carrier that was parked just off the

coast of San Diego. Bush emerged from the fighter jet took off his helmet and walked to a

podium to give a speech behind him, behind that podium, was hanging a huge banner that read,

Mission Accomplished. Funally enough, he never actually used those words in the speech itself.

We can maybe get into that. This speech of course was taking place some two months

after the start of the Iraq war. Two months, depending on how you count the

war in Iraq would continue for some 15 years or more past the mission accomplished

speech but let's talk about that moment itself here as always are Nicole

Hammer of Columbia and Kelly Carter Jackson of Wellesley hello.

Hey Jody.

Hey there.

And our special guests for this episode

is Slates Noreen Malone.

She's a fantastic writer and among the many things she does,

she is also the host of the most recent season of Slow Burn.

Is this the fifth season, Maureen, is that right?

It is season five, yes.

There you go, season five of Slow Burn, which is all about the run up to the war in Iraq.

The first two episodes are out now

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