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Four years after George W. Bush landed on an aircraft carrier and declared victory in Iraq in front of a banner that said, “Mission Accomplished,” spoken word artist Steven Connell asks what has and hasn’t been accomplished. Steven has teamed up with Robert Greenwald (Wal-Mart: The High Cost of Low Prices<\/em> and Iraq for Sale: The War Profiteers<\/em>) to produce a video promoting both a contest to decide what should go on that infamous banner, as well as reminding Americans about the cost of this war in soldiers’ lives. Watch it:<\/a><\/p>\n

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