George W. Bush’s performance with the “Mission Accomplished” banner — a rhetorical victory lap that came before the protracted bloodshed — deserves all of its notoriety 20 years later.

President George W. Bush said he regrets the display of the “Mission Accomplished” sign as backdrop for a speech he gave about a month after the March 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq.

What’s faded, 15 years since George W. Bush stood beneath that infamous sign on May 1, ... on the fifth anniversary of U.S. President George W. Bush’s “Mission Accomplished” speech.

The United States military last evening performed skillfully and courageously in attacking three of Iran’s nuclear sites.

Will Saletan takes a deep dive into Donald Trump’s lies about the Iran strikes, revisits his past criticism of George W.

President Joe Biden has announced that a new aircraft carrier will be named after former President George W. Bush, who infamously made a premature “Mission Accomplished” declaration on a ...

The annals of political imagery are replete with disasters, moments when the most carefully crafted public persona dissolves in a moment of ludicrous self-parody. Some of these have become clichés.

Twenty years ago, President George W. Bush declared the end of major combat in Iraq in front of a banner reading, “mission accomplished,” in a now-infamous speech on May 1, 2003, aboard the ...

President Bush famously delivered his controversial “Mission Accomplished” speech onboard the USS Abraham Lincoln aircraft carrier in 2003, declaring that “major combat operations in Iraq ...

President Joe Biden has announced that a new aircraft carrier will be named after former President George W. Bush, who infamously made a premature “Mission Accomplished” declaration on a ...