Bush tells Army families sacrifice is appreciated

[smirkymonkey]

Read this and puke...

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-bush25.html
November 25, 2003
BY JENNIFER LOVEN

FORT CARSON, Colo. -- President Bush, at an Army base that has seen 31 soldiers die in Iraq, sought Monday to reassure their families and an anxious nation that America is safer because of the mission there.

''All our military families that mourn can know this: Our nation will never forget the sacrifice that their loved one made to protect us all,'' Bush said. ''By the unselfish dedication of Americans in uniform, children in our own country and in lands far away will be able to live in freedom and know the peace that freedom brings.''

(snip)

''My only problem with the administration and the country's campaign in Iraq is they could have done a better job of explaining why we're over there,'' said 1st Lt. Ted Stutz.

''What makes me mad the most is past presidents have gone to funerals and he hasn't gone to any,'' said Lori Hartman, whose husband, Spc. Corey Hartman, is heading for Iraq in February. ''It's like he wants to turn his back and not realize what's really going on.''

What a sickening piece of crap he is! He can take his freedom and shove it up his ass - how condescending!!

[shockingelk]

1. I hope they keep hammering on stuff like this

Less than 1/3 of Americans thing invading Iraq made them safer. The message that we are safer because we invaded Iraq is a negative one. The ad and statements like this reflect negatively on Bush.

[bushisanidiot]

2. "Now Watch This Drive!"

he's all talk and no action. The chimp just reads what's written for him or displayed on the teleprompter. He makes no sense of any of it.


What a WEAK puppet "president".

[smirkymonkey]

3. And he still has yet to attend a funeral...

what a coward!! Don't these people see through him yet?? :grr:

[central scrutinizer]

4. sacrifice is for the poor

* and his supporters don't plan on sacrificing anything - not money, nor time, comfort, and certainly not blood.

[tabasco]

5. Did he tell them he gave up candy for the war?

Bush doesn't know the meaning of the word sacrifice. He has been handed everything he ever had, and has never worked a day in his life.

[LibDemAlways]

6. The media whores eat this crap up....

In a country with a free press the chimp would have resigned in disgrace long ago.

[The Backlash Cometh]

7. Our country is not safer. That's bullshit.

The oil reserves may be safer for Bushco., but in the process, he's made Iraq the number on recruiting nation for Al Qaida.

[Cat Atomic]

8. Ever read "The Bush Dyslexicon"? There's some disturbing

material on Bush's style of speech, and what it suggests about his personality and interests.

He can be almost eloquent when he talks about killing people or inflicting pain, but he's unfocussed and incoherent when trying to sound compassionate.

[Deaner1971]

9. What about the military facilities

Why does Bush speak about "thanks" and "appreciation" while the DoD looks at closing numerous PXs and base schools?

You gotta love the appreciation he shows by taking away the very facilities that support military families while their loved ones are off fighting.

[OldSoldier]

12. Commissaries, not PXs

Bush likes PXs. They are a quasi-independent, for-profit entity--as close to a private corporation as you'll get on base. The profits are by law mandated to be rolled back into the enterprise (which is how they build more PXs), but they make no bones about the fact that they're in it for the money.

Controlling authority for the PX system is split three ways: the Marine Corps Exchange Command, which is for the Marines; the Naval Exchange Service, which is for the Navy (although on a large naval base, they generally have both MCX and NEX); and the Army and Air Force Exchange Service, which before the Air Force came along was the Army Exchange Service. (The exchange system requires an Army Organization lesson. And I thought I was done with those!)

The Commissary is run by the Defense Commissary Agency, and it is a non-profit enterprise; they add a 5-percent surcharge at the register to cover expenses but the food on the shelf is priced at cost--by law. Any idea why Bush doesn't like the commissary system?

I expect Bush to try to sell the PX and Commissary systems to Wal-Mart before it's all over with.

[Fuzz]

10. Just ignore how he treats you when you come home

by cutting your benefits, wages etc.

[sungkathak]

11. That's a typical Bushism.

Of course, you pay money,(sacrifice) I eat the meat. (oil resource, military budget, police power)

Britons are more straight at Blair.

Blair 'not welcome' at war service
By Severin Carrell
05 October 2003

The families of British soldiers killed in Iraq have fiercely criticised Tony Blair's decision to attend a remembrance service for Britain's war dead.

One grieving relative - the father of the helicopter pilot Philip Green killed in a crash - said the Prime Minister should stay away from the service at St Paul's Cathedral on Friday.

Richard Green, a businessman from Grantham, Lincolnshire, claimed Mr Blair had lied to the nation about the need for war and was ultimately to blame for the deaths of 51 British troops. "He shouldn't be there because he's the one that killed them," he said. The attacks are highly damaging for Mr Blair - coming only days after he avoided an embarrassing clash with Labour activists over his decision to attack Iraq without United Nations backing.

...

Mr Green admitted he felt highly emotional about Mr Blair's presence at the service. "I think he's a war criminal, it's as simple as that. The man, without any consideration to the Labour parliamentary party, elected to go to war with this scabby little friend in Texas , and killed 51 of our men unnecessarily," he said. "If I have a chance to meet him on Friday, I will tell him to his face."

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/politics/story.jsp?story=450117

[lumpy]

13. Our nation will never forget the sacrifice....Wrong

The only ones who will remember are the families who are left behind.
If this man has any conscience at all, we can only hope this man will be asking for forgiveness from his god for sending people to death based on his unconscionable actions with reasons based on lies.
I suspect any tears he may have shed are tears of self pity. He is pitiful.

[MUAD_DIB]

14. * reminds me of the President in

Escape from New York.

He didn't give a shit that people were dying around him just as long as his ass was safe.

Doesn't it make you feel all warm and squishy inside to know how much * cares and how he hugs the mothers and the widows, the wives and the kids on the death of their loved ones?

We are living in a parody folks. The peasants have taken over and they want their Joe Millionaire!