Mission Accomplished speech
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Mission Accomplished is the name given to a televised speech made on May 1, 2003, by United States president George W. Bush on the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln near the coast of California. Bu
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The USS Abraham Lincoln returning to port carrying the Mission Accomplished banner
President George W. Bush poses for a photo with sailors immediately before his "Mission Accomplished" speech.
The S-3B Viking "Navy One" was retired and put in display at the National Museum of Naval Aviation.
The withdrawal of the United States troops from Iraq began in December 2007 with the end of the Iraq War troop surge of 2007 and was mostly completed by December 2011, bringing an end to the Iraq War.
Kuwaiti soldiers man a border crossing in December 2011, as the last of the U.S. military convoy crosses the border from Iraq into Kuwait, completing the withdrawal