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Look, the mission accomplished banner was embarrassing, right? But at no point following that were they declaring victory like five times a week. I'm just saying that they declared victory before the occupation went sour and there was much more violence, more casualties. And so that sense of euphoria for the United States did not last. But following that, they didn't just keep repeating false statements of. Victory. You know, they might have something over a certain like insurgent group. They might say we accomplished this much damage, therefore success. But it wasn't like, oh, we won. Oh, we're basically won. Oh, you know, we won militarily.