President Trump in an early Saturday tweet thanked his military forces, and those of his allies, after airstrikes on Syria late Friday. "A perfectly executed strike last night. Thank you to France and the United Kingdom for their wisdom and the power of their fine Military. Could not have had a better result. Mission Accomplished!" the president tweeted. U.S., U.K. and French forces administered the strikes, aimed at believed chemical-weapons labs and other targets, in retaliation for a suspected Assad regime-led chemical-weapons attack last week that killed at least 43 civilians. Trump's wording invited immediate comparison to President George W. Bush's early, and as it turned out, misplaced, optimism about the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq, which extended into a longer major combat operation from that point. "Mission Accomplished" was proclaimed on a banner behind Bush during an address from the USS Abraham Lincoln.