Mission: Accomplished

Standing on the deck of the USS Abraham Lincoln, President Bush last night declared an end to major combat operations in Iraq. He then went on to say that the removal of Saddam Hussein was but one small victory in the much larger War on Terror. Bush was confident, however, that we would ultimately prevail because "our God can beat up their god."

In what may have been a not-so-subtle message to the rest of the world, Bush personally flew the S-38 Viking aircraft for several minutes while enroute to the carrier, and bombed a series of targets marked Syria, Iran, and North Korea. The practice run went reasonably well, except that the target named North Korea did manage to completely destroy a fourth, smaller target labelled Seoul before going up in flames itself.