Not so fast, Joe. Last week, President Biden spoke words that Americans have waited 16 months to hear. âWe are emerging from the darkness of ... a year of pandemic and isolation, a year of pain, fear and heartbreaking loss,â he said to a country that was celebrating its national day with picnics, cookouts, fireworks displays and parades. With growing vaccination rates and with shrinking hospitalization and death rates, the presidentâs remarks sounded a lot like a declaration of âMission Accomplished.â And thatâs the danger. The last time a president proclaimed âMission Accomplishedâ was 18 years earlier, when George W. Bush stood on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS Abraham Lincoln, a banner with that slogan behind him, and said that âin the battle of Iraq, the United States and our allies have prevailed.â