Friday, August 29, 2014

Ten Things You might Not Know About Gaffes-- Part 5

7.  Former IRS honcho LOIS LERNER, under fire for accusations that her agency had targeted conservative groups, made a strange statement:  "I'm not good at math."  But, she knew enough about arithmetic to take the Fifth before Congress.

8.  One of the most infamous mistakes was apparently only in hindsight.  The "MISSION ACCOMPLISHED" banner on the USS Abraham Lincoln for President George W. Bush's May 1, 2003, speech declaring an end of major military operations in Iraq, is now considered a blatant gaffe  Newspapers at the time barely even mentioned it.

However, the Iraq insurgency continued on for years afterwards (even now).

--Cooter

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