President Joe Biden has announced that a new aircraft carrier will be named after former President George W. Bush, who infamously made a premature “Mission Accomplished” declaration on a similar ship to tout his administration’s disastrous invasion and occupation of Iraq.
Biden, who voted for the Iraq invasion and was one of its biggest cheerleaders in the United States Senate, said in a statement that Bush knows “firsthand the weight of the responsibilities that come with being Commander-in-Chief.”
He also said another aircraft carrier would be named after former President Bill Clinton. Both ships, he said, “will begin construction in the years ahead.”