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 aircraft ...

Twenty years ago today, on May 1, 2003, then-President George W. Bush stood on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln behind a lectern that bore the presidential seal. Behind him stood the aircraft ...

Four years ago today, President Bush stepped before the cameras and announced that the Iraq war was won. Standing on an aircraft carrier and decked out in a flight suit, Bush declared that the United ...

The president and his top advisers are prisoners of nostalgic fantasies. George W. Bush may fancy himself a painter, but his greatest contribution to the visual arts is in photography. On May 1, 2003, ...

The Twittersphere piled on President Donald Trump after he tweeted Saturday that the US-led strikes on Syria "could not have had a better result." "Mission Accomplished!" he wrote of the US, UK and ...

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.