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The society is being torn apart, and there's nobody in control. and that was our fault. - mr. bush declared an end to the military phase of the war in iraq and called the battle a victory in the war against terrorism. - the administration's very intent on actions that show to the public things are going well. so on may 1, 2003, bush flies out to a ship near san diego and gives this speech where he talks about just how well the operation had gone. and the navy had hung a banner in the background that said, "mission accomplished." - the transition from dictatorship to democracy will take time, b...

>> on may 1, 2003, the president of the united states put on a flight suit and got into a navy jet. they had him sitting there in the plane as the jet did a tailhook landing on to the deck of an aircraft carrier sitting offshore off the coast of san diego. they painted the president's name on the side of the plane. showing where he was sitting when they did that landing. and they let him play land the jet on board that carrier. then the president hopped off the plane and he walked around the place for a while. showing off the flight suit with his helmet under his arm. he took a lot of pictures...

Election. was the controversial decision to take action on iraq. >> and we're talking about exactly ten years ago, ten, 11 years ago when the debates were taken place, next week it will be ten years since the "mission accomplished" sign on the carrier. which the white house disclaimed any responsibility for. but it still had him standing under a sign that they could have taken down and we saw how many thousands of troops and contractors and civilians died after that may 1, 2003. >> absolutely. and i think that the lessons of iraq weigh over everything that the white house is doing. they never ...

a number of people. this was after a football game in texas. you see the effort going on there to try to stop this runaway cart. they finally did. questions this morning about why it was going on its own in the first place. also, many of you need to be prepping for a major winter storm that's expected to drop up to 15 inches of snow. our reynolds wolf is all over this. he'll be along in a moment. it started as shock and awe nearly nine years ago. it's ended with sand and dust on a desert highway headed into kuwait. the last convoy of u.s. troops has left iraq. watch. [ horn ] >> ...

Be here for a while. i remember that moment very well. because i did not know if we were on the verge of wrapping up the war, some of us felt that way for a little bit but there was also a lingering sense that you know, we could be there for months, if not years, and i wasn't alone, by the way, mel james, my photographer, took all of those images and still works for fox and we keep in touch from time-to-time and the engineer, ben, as well and had a great crew with me. martha: when we watch these videos today, some of the men and women, coming home, and we saw this one soldier on a tank, saying...