under the guise of honoring George Washington, he was essentially honoring himself, once again proving his delusional narcissistic sociopathology to the extreme by comparing himself to George Washington and equating America's struggle for freedom from British reign with the Iraq War. You're on the OTHER FUCKING SIDE THIS TIME DIPSHIT!!! Of course, the Washington Post could only find freepers to interview afterwards :wtf: :argh:
President Bush visited Mount Vernon yesterday to pay tribute to "the first George W." and compared the Revolutionary War to the Iraq war in their pursuit of freedom.
Bush made his first visit as president to George Washington's home on the holiday marking the first president's birthday. Bush said he had visited Mount Vernon with his grandmother as "a little fellow from Midland, Texas," drawing appreciative laughs from a chilly crowd of several hundred tourists, history buffs and schoolchildren who had the day off.
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Bush's remarks consisted mainly of a reflection on Washington's life and impact on the United States, with brief allusions to today's war.
"America's path to freedom was long, and it was hard," Bush said. "And the outcome was really never certain. . . . In the end, General Washington understood that the Revolutionary War was a test of wills, and his will was unbreakable."
In the only direct analogy to Iraq, the president said, "Today, we're fighting a new war to defend our liberty and our people and our way of life. And as we work to advance the cause of freedom around the world, we remember that the father of our country believed that the freedoms we secured in our revolution were not meant for Americans alone. He once wrote, 'My best wishes are irresistibly excited whensoever in any country I see an oppressed nation unfurl the banners of freedom.' "
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/19/AR2007021900842.html
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