Five Years Ago Today

yustr · 05-01-2008, 10:12 PM

MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

**Drew1369** · 05-02-2008, 03:37 AM

Yup, the invasion was successful... too bad the occupation has not been as successful

yustr · 05-02-2008, 12:44 PM

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Originally Posted by Drew1369

...too bad the occupation has not been as successful

Drew wins the Understatement of the Year award.

**Chode** · 05-03-2008, 06:55 PM

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Originally Posted by yustr

Drew wins the Understatement of the Year award.

You said it! I feel like I should send him some kind of prize, but my wife needs a hip replacement, and shortfalls in our health insurance coverage coupled with the increasing costs of gasoline and food mean I just can't afford it

**Drew1369** · 05-03-2008, 08:27 PM

But the occupation has been better now... first hand from my friend who just got back... but the mission Bush was talking about was accomplished, now the current mission needs to be complete.

**Chode** · 05-04-2008, 04:47 PM

A mission a day keeps withdrawal away. I remember one of those tiresome corporate management workshops I took where the "facilitator" explained, "We never fail to meet our goals. We just redefine and reschedule them." Well it was crap then and it's crap now. You can play all the elementary school word games you want about the "old" mission versus the "new" mission, but the bottom line is that constantly redefining "success" isn't really the same thing as succeeding.

05-01-2008, 10:12 PM	#1 (permalink)
yustr Asst. Manager, The Conversation Pit Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: Connecticut shore Posts: 6,050 OS: XP Pro My System	Five Years Ago Today MISSION ACCOMPLISHED __________________ If there are lawyers or politicians involved, logic may be a very poor tool for reaching a conclusion.

05-02-2008, 03:37 AM	#2 (permalink)
Drew1369 Moderator Relaxation Room Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Seattle, WA, USA Posts: 3,432 OS: Win7 Ultimate	Re: Five Years Ago Today Yup, the invasion was successful... too bad the occupation has not been as successful __________________ We humans have a primal urge to kill because, thanks to natural selection, all the homo sapiens who didn't have a primal urge to kill, were themselves killed. http://obamaclock.org/

05-03-2008, 08:27 PM	#5 (permalink)
Drew1369 Moderator Relaxation Room Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Seattle, WA, USA Posts: 3,432 OS: Win7 Ultimate	Re: Five Years Ago Today But the occupation has been better now... first hand from my friend who just got back... but the mission Bush was talking about was accomplished, now the current mission needs to be complete. __________________ We humans have a primal urge to kill because, thanks to natural selection, all the homo sapiens who didn't have a primal urge to kill, were themselves killed. http://obamaclock.org/

05-04-2008, 04:47 PM	#6 (permalink)
Chode TSF Enthusiast Join Date: Sep 2006 Posts: 1,280 OS: Windows XP Pro	Re: Five Years Ago Today A mission a day keeps withdrawal away. I remember one of those tiresome corporate management workshops I took where the "facilitator" explained, "We never fail to meet our goals. We just redefine and reschedule them." Well it was crap then and it's crap now. You can play all the elementary school word games you want about the "old" mission versus the "new" mission, but the bottom line is that constantly redefining "success" isn't really the same thing as succeeding. __________________ Sweet!