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Well, mission accomplished on making another person more curious about the stuff! Looks tasty.

Mission accomplished, indeed.

"Mission Accomplished"

Not wasted at all. The video got a bunch of votes, you got a badge; I'd call that mission accomplished.

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Ooh, that's really good. *quality

Thanks. Sorry your points got wasted on a dupe. It got me a popstar lev2 badge before it was isduped though if that is any consolation.

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I wonder how many landed in the lake?


According to the same law that governs the angular velocity and trajectory of buttered toast: all of them.

The end made me LOL. Mission accomplished.

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Good analysis. I too wish the Wachoskis had gone that route.>> ^timtoner:

I assiduously avoided any commentary about the film until I was able to judge it for myself, and was interested to see that Nolan had started work on the script while shooting Memento. Given that The Matrix came out in 1999 and Memento in 2000, it's not a stretch to consider that Nolan had seen The Matrix and, like the rest of us, was really thinking about it. Now most people HATEHATEHATE the Matrix sequels, but there's a moment at the end of the second one where it still could have been all right, where all the craziness would suddenly make sense, but the filmmakers would have to trust the audience to follow them down the rabbit hole. I speak of course of the moment when Neo raises his hand and shuts down the Sentinels. How the frick could he do that?!? The answer, to me, was obvious: Neo/Thomas Anderson realized that "The Desert of the Real" (as Morpheus referred to it) was just another construct fashioned by the machines. Everything we've been told supports this conclusion. I don't want to go into too much detail, but as I was watching Inception, it occurred to me that Nolan came to the exact same conclusion I did, and was just as pissed as I was when the Wachowskis failed to trust their audience (as seen in the third film). Inception, then, is a think piece not only about the nature of reality, but how little things can build to dangerous proportions if we let them.
To me, the most wonderful thing about Inception was its completely incomprehensible trailer. We were shown disparate images that make not a lick of sense, and left me feeling rather put out. Upon watching the film, I realized that the trailer showed us EVERYTHING without actually telling us ANYTHING. It was the fevered fragments of a dream, seconds after waking. Since that's pretty much what the movie is about, mission accomplished, trailer-makers.

I assiduously avoided any commentary about the film until I was able to judge it for myself, and was interested to see that Nolan had started work on the script while shooting Memento. Given that The Matrix came out in 1999 and Memento in 2000, it's not a stretch to consider that Nolan had seen The Matrix and, like the rest of us, was really thinking about it. Now most people HATEHATEHATE the Matrix sequels, but there's a moment at the end of the second one where it still could have been all right, where all the craziness would suddenly make sense, but the filmmakers would have to trust the audience to follow them down the rabbit hole. I speak of course of the moment when Neo raises his hand and shuts down the Sentinels. How the frick could he do that?!? The answer, to me, was obvious: Neo/Thomas Anderson realized that "The Desert of the Real" (as Morpheus referred to it) was just another construct fashioned by the machines. Everything we've been told supports this conclusion. I don't want to go into too much detail, but as I was watching Inception, it occurred to me that Nolan came to the exact same conclusion I did, and was just as pissed as I was when the Wachowskis failed to trust their audience (as seen in the third film). Inception, then, is a think piece not only about the nature of reality, but how little things can build to dangerous proportions if we let them.

To me, the most wonderful thing about Inception was its completely incomprehensible trailer. We were shown disparate images that make not a lick of sense, and left me feeling rather put out. Upon watching the film, I realized that the trailer showed us EVERYTHING without actually telling us ANYTHING. It was the fevered fragments of a dream, seconds after waking. Since that's pretty much what the movie is about, mission accomplished, trailer-makers.

The above collegiate hand-wringing is based on the as yet unestablished position that the Isreali blockade is not legal. As that assertion is not established, the enforcement of the blockade is therefore legal. Ergo, the stopping of vessels that are clearly intending to ignore the blockade is justified. The activists were offered the chance to unload and truck the goods in. They refused. This is established fact. In fact, the Palestinians are REFUSING to accept the goods from the flotilla. This was never about providing aid. This was a political stunt for PR purposes. Mission accomplished I guess as far as these sleazeballs is concerned. Too bad some of their idiot pawns had to pay with their lives.

Beautiful. From his description:

"So I saw all of these mediocre pictures of that volcano in Iceland nobody can pronounce the name of, so I figured I should go and do better."

Mission accomplished I'd say.

@dag, actually this war was supposedly over in 2003. Remember Bush's Mission Accomplished speech? He said on May 1st, 2003 that "In the Battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed."

The incident in this video happened during the surge. I can imagine this kind of thing happened all over the place in 2007, it was the bloodiest year of the "war" to date.

Glad we're withdrawing troops. Wish we were doing it faster, but at least we aren't being told that we need to stay forever, and anyone who says otherwise is a terrorist.

They're supposedly ending combat missions in August.

Question is, did America learn any lessons from Iraq, or will it all get papered over and forgotten?

@marinara, sometime you gotta explain to me how you identify yourself politically.

The DemRapidResponse channel is the DNC's channel. That's why at the end of the video there's fine print saying "Paid for by the Democratic National Committee".

I'm a little surprised Reich wrote an article raining on the parade, but he's been all kinds of doom and gloom throughout so maybe I shouldn't be. He's right, this is no time to trot out the "Mission Accomplished" banner, and stop worrying about the economy...but that's not what anyone's planning on doing. He also seems intent on diminishing the fact that this is an important milestone on the road to recovery. The economy grew the number of jobs last month -- more than it has in two years, in fact -- which is what you need if you're going to start bringing the unemployment rate down.

He's right that this particular amount of jobs is still not enough to start lowering the unemployment rate, but if you look at the all the other positive indicators, it looks like the upward trend will continue.

I'm glad he's raising the concern that we're nearing the peak of the stimulus, because my real concern is that they'll let it drop off right as it starts to really pay off. The Democratic strategy seems to be to pass smaller "jobs" (don't call it stimulus) bills every couple of weeks, which seems to be able to sneak past the perpetual Republican filibuster in the Senate.

^Always have been against Iraq. Both seem to be futile efforts. Change in these countries needs to come from within, so that each step is thought out, felt and understood - Like the old proverb about the merits of teaching someone how to fish vs. giving them a fish. Beyond that, it seems crazy to keep spending money abroad when people are hurting so badly at home. We are making drastic cuts in education that will have long term effects on future generations. You think education sucks now, wait until massive teacher layoffs send class size skyrocketing. I can't help but wonder how many schools you could build for the price of a stealth bomber or how many books you could buy, or how many teachers you could hire.

I've never heard a clear goal as to what constitutes 'Mission Accomplished' in either of these countries. I don't really understand why we are still in either place. Futile.

I avoided the appropriate channels for shock value. Mission accomplished.