After eleven years, nearly two thousand Americans killed, sixteen thousand Americans wounded, nearly four hundred billion dollars spent, and more than twelve thousand Afghan civilians dead since 2007, the war in Afghanistan has come to this: the United States is leaving, mission not accomplished.

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If I were seen as a US centric company, the mission would not be accomplished.

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He did not declare "mission accomplished".

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The seesawing and demurral of an official announcement declaring a victor has not stopped Prodi from delivering his "mission accomplished" speech: "Until the very end we were left in suspense, but in the end victory has arrived, " he told his supporters early Tuesday.

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Mission accomplished but Benghazi was simply shoved back into the closet, not dragged out and resolved.

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But in late 2005, almost three years after George W. Bush declared mission accomplished, an almost daily barrage of bombings and killings have convinced most people this is not war is not going according to plan.

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