Reply #15: I thought it was an established thing, this "Iraq Liberation Day"...

[Career Prole]

...but it's no such thing!

From the Moonie Times last week

Families of American troops are asking national newspapers and television news networks not to ignore the three-year anniversary Sunday of the day Saddam Hussein fled Baghdad and his statue was toppled.
"We are keenly aware that the national media is drawn towards covering milestones and we respectfully request that you not ignore this historic date," Families United for Our Troops and Their Mission wrote to four news network presidents, National Public Radio and four national newspapers.

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The Republican state senator from Iowa said Egyptian and Afghan elections and Syria's withdrawal of troops in Lebanon "all started with Iraqi liberation day, April 9."
Letters were sent to the Boston Globe, the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and The Washington Post, as well as to ABC, CBS, CNN and NBC.
Two weeks ago, a woman raised the issue of press bias directly to President Bush.
At a town-hall forum in Wheeling, W.Va., Gayle Taylor said her husband had returned from his job as a military broadcast journalist in Iraq with footage of progress being made there, but said television networks "just want to focus on some more bloodshed, or they just want to focus on how they don't agree with you and what you're doing."

Un-friggin'-believable. They didn't even pick a halfway reasonable date. They're picking the day the statue got knocked down...three weeks before chimpy's ridiculous declaration of "Mission Accomplished"!
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