Trump’s Iran war victory boast has echoes of Bush’s ill-fated ‘mission accomplished’ claim
US president says all major sticking points have been ironed out ahead of peace talks, but some of his assertions seem dubious
It lacked the triumphalist symbolism of George W Bush’s memorable – and subsequently ill-fated – appearance before the https://millercenter.org/americas-war-in-iraq/mission-accomplished-moment">“mission accomplished” banner aboard the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln six weeks after the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
But there was no mistaking the boastful claims asserted on Friday by Donald Trump after a military assault on neighbouring Iran that has, so far, lasted a similar period and which, by widespread agreement outside the Trump administration, has not gone to plan.
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